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Subject(s)

• Structural engineering [Browse]

Editor

• Pritchard, B. [Browse]
• Pritchard, B. [Browse]

Summary note

There is growing worldwide interest in designing joint-free bridge structures. This book provides an international review of the subject, drawing on practical experience of designing integral and continuous joint-free bridge decks.; By eliminating joints, designers can avoid problems of maintenance of joints and corrosion of substructures. National standards are being revised to encourage joint-free bridge deck designs, and there is a growing need for sharing of experience to ensure that designers understand how to take technical and economic advantage of this approach.; This book contains the invited contributions to the Henderson Colloquium arranged by the British Group of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) held in Cambridge in 1993. It provides a wide-ranging overview of current intemational thinking on joint-free bridges covering the following topics: Problems of bridge articulation, Advantages of bridge continuity, Continuous bridges, Integral bridges, Long-length continuity, Retrofitting, Precast beam deck continuity, Soil-structure interaction.

Notes

Includes index.

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Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors and participants; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Problems of Bridge Articulation; Chapter 1. Performance of Deck Expansion Joints; Chapter 2. Research requirements for bridge deck expansion joints; Chapter 3. Bearing performance; Chapter 4. Effects of temperature, shrinkage and creep on integral bridges; Report on Session One; Part 2: Advantages of Bridege Continuity; Chapter 5. Historical review of the development of continuity and expansion joints in bridges; Chapter 6. Advantages of bridge deck continuity Chapter 7. Continuity in decks with precast beams practical issuesReport on Session Two; Part 3: Continuous Briduges; Chapter 8. Design concept of the Trans-Tokyo Bay Bridge; Chapter 9. Continuous steel and composite bridges; Report on Session Three; Part 4: Integral Bridges; Chapter 10. Danish integral bridges; Chapter 11. Precast segmental construction; Chapter 12. Italian joint-free bridge decks; Chapter 13. The UK Department of Transport view on continuity/integral bridges; Chapter 14. Jointless steel viaducts for railway; Report on Session Four; Part 5: Long-Length Continuity Chapter 15. The design and performance of continuously reinforced concrete pavementsChapter 16. Experience in the use of continuous welded rails on The Netherlands railway network; Chapter 17. Continuous arches; Report on Session Five; Part 6: Retrofitting; Chapter 18. Study on jointless bridge construction in Japan; Chapter 19. Semi-integral bridges: a concept whose time has come?; Report on Session Six; Part 7: Precast Beam Deck Continuity; Chapter 20. Continuity of precast pretensioned concrete beams by embedment in integral crossheads Chapter 21. Locally separated deck slab continuity in composite bridgesReport on Session Seven; Part 8: Soil-Structure Interaction; Chapter 22. Soil-structure interaction: centrifuge modelling of integral bridge abutments; Chapter 23. The contribution of the road pavement in absorbing horizontal movements in an embankment; Chapter 24. The interaction between bridges and embankments and the use of run-on slabs; Report on Session Eight; Concluding summary; Author index; Subject index.

ISBN

• 0-429-07825-0
• 1-4822-7138-9
• 9786610104895

OCLC

742285238

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