Structural Bridge Design Guidelines/Examples/Textbooks 3

[jmortiz]

Hello, I am looking for a really good text book or design manual with examples for highway bridges (LRFD preferably). I ve been designing buildings for over 10 years now, from low rise to highrise buildings, and small private bridges... but the actual economy is affecting considerably the buiding industry. I want to diversify my services and start designing highway bridges for DOT. Thanks.

 

[BigH]

I would google Highway Design Manuals - there are so many of the DOT manuals on the net that are freely downloadable. Depending on substructure or superstructure - they will be both in LRFD. For the substructure, sadly, thanks to FHWA. Still can't be convinced that the LRFD is necessary in the foundation design - especially since they calibrate it to the traditional anyway.

 

[Qshake]

Contemporary Texts include:

Bridge Engineering by Tonias,
Bridge Design by Xanthakos,
Modern Concrete Bridge Design by Heins

Industry References:
PCI Design of Concrete Highway Bridges,
AISC Design of Steel Highway Structures,
FHWA Bridge design examples (superstructure and substructure) - just search for the FHWA bridge design examples or go to the FHWA website and look around.
Structural Steel Designers Handbook - Merritt and Brockenbrough
Structural Engineer's Handbook, gaylord and gaylord.

and as BigH pointed out many DOT's have examples, part and parcel, on their websites.



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[bridgebuster]

Free downloads courtesy of AASHTO.

http://bridges.transportation.org/Pages/DESIGNEXAMPLES.aspx

Minnesota DOT has a design manual with very good examples. CalTrans has a lot of info as well.