LRFD BRIDGE BOOKS 1

[zeroracing0x]

I am looking to purchase some LRFD Bridge design books for our office. I have the code book but am looking at getting a few textbooks that have good design examples and explanation. I do want a book or books to cover both superstructure and substructure. I have looked on Amazon.com at the following books:

1. "Bridge Engineering 2nd edition" by Tonias and Zhoa, the office currently has 1st edition (his LFD version) and it is a great book for superstructure, but seems to lack much on substructure.

2. "Design of Highway Bridges: An LRFD Approach" by Barker and Puckett. They are pushing these as a kit so it caught my eye some but have not heard any reviews about this book.

I am afraid both of these books only cover superstructure, which I do not mind buying the Bridge Engineering one for Super and some other book for sub.

Any book reviews or recommendations?

Thanks,

Jason

 

[bridgebuster]

Bridge design examples using LRFD:

http://bridges.transportation.org/?siteid=34&pageid=339

There are several examples. They have a link to a book called "steel superstrucutre" but it does include abutmentment and pier design. The book called "concrete design example" includes substructure as well.

I've also downloaded manuals from Washington State DOT and Minnesota DOT that a pretty good.

I've seen the second edition of Tonias; not much of what you're looking for.

 

[buening]

I know one thing, don't get the Bridge Engineering Handbook by Chen/Duan. Darn thing is all metric and unfortunately I found this out once it arrived. Pretty much $200 wasted for that enormous book.

I have both books mentioned above, but I haven't gotten very deep in them yet to comment.

 

[buening]

To follow up, here is the basis of the Index for each book:

Design of Highway Bridges
1. Intro to Bridge Engineering (42 pages)
2. Aesthetic and Bridge Typse (66 pages)
3. General Design Considerations (46 pages, goes into Limit states and development of LRFD)
4. Loads (62 pages)
5. Influence Functions and Girder-Line Analysis (52 pages)
6. System Analysis (116 pages)
7. Concrete Bridges (272 pages)
8. Steel Bridges (289 pages)

It is more in depth for superstructure design, but doesn't cover any substructure design.



Bridge Engineering:
1. The Structure (37 pages)
2. Project Inception (34 pages)
3. The Superstructure (286 pages)
4. The Substructure (72 pages)
5. Implementation and Management (38 pages)

The problem with this book is it is based on LFD design and not LRFD. All examples are done in LFD.



I have the Substructure Design book, which is a portion of the Bridge Engineering Handbook (which I also have but didn't know it contained the Substructure section). It has some of the book in Metric and some of it is in English. The majority of the BEH and the Substructure book is in metric though, with the few sporatic examples with english units.

Let me know if you want any specifics on any of the books.

 

[Qshake]

Buening you cite two books, Design of Highway Bridges and Bridge Engineering....

Who is the author for each of those? I thought you were referencing the Chen/Duan book....please clarify.

Regards,
Qshake

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[buening]

Sorry if it was confusing. My first response was strictly with the Chen/Duan Bridge Engineering Handbook regarding being about 95% metric.

My second post has the overall index for the Bridge Engineering 2nd Edition by Tonias/Zhoa as well as Design of Highway Bridges An LRFD Approach by Barker/Puckett


The last little part in my second response is the Substructure Design book by Chen/Duan, which is a separate book but is one part of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. I wasn't aware of this at the time, but all of the contents in the Substructure Design book is in the Bridge Engineering Handbook. They basically took the chapter and made it into a book. There is also a Seismic Design book by Chen/Duan, which again ends up being part of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. The Bridge Engineering Handbook is 2020 pages, so it's a hoss. It's well written, just in metric

 

[Qshake]

For those wanting substructure content and are ok with LFD, try Xanthakos, Substructure and Foundations.

Buening, thanks for the clarification.

Regards,
Qshake

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[HgTX]

How does a difference in measurement system constitute a waste of an entire book?

Hg

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