Accelerated Bridge Construction
Accelerated Bridge Construction

Author: Mohiuddin Ali Khan

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 0124072259

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The traveling public has no patience for prolonged, high cost construction projects. This puts highway construction contractors under intense pressure to minimize traffic disruptions and construction cost. Actively promoted by the Federal Highway Administration, there are hundreds of accelerated bridge construction (ABC) construction programs in the United States, Europe and Japan. Accelerated Bridge Construction: Best Practices and Techniques provides a wide range of construction techniques, processes and technologies designed to maximize bridge construction or reconstruction operations while minimizing project delays and community disruption. - Describes design methods for accelerated bridge substructure construction; reducing foundation construction time and methods by using pile bents - Explains applications to steel bridges, temporary bridges in place of detours using quick erection and demolition - Covers design-build systems' boon to ABC; development of software; use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) - Includes applications to glulam and sawn lumber bridges, precast concrete bridges, precast joints details; use of lightweight aggregate concrete, aluminum and high-performance steel

Highway Bridge Inspections
Highway Bridge Inspections

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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America's Bridges???
America's Bridges???

Author: Evan N. Kantwell

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781604560978

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Has anyone actually seen a bridge being built in America? This editor has travelled for almost 40 years in America without seeing a single one being constructed -- and few even being repaired. Some critics point out that America has built excellent bridges in Vietnam and Iraq which indicates that the knowledge base remains intact. Others say that individual states cannot feed their armies of bureaucrats and fund their plush pensions and health care programs and still expect to build bridges. And the federal government cannot be counted on for much of anything useful. This book presents recent reports focusing on this part of America's crumbling infrastructure.

Too Big to Fall
Too Big to Fall

Author: Barry B. LePatner

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0984497803

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A comprehensive overview of the shocking state of our nation's infrastructure and what must be done to fix it

Bridge Safety
Bridge Safety

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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Highway Bridge Program: Condition of Nation's Bridges Shows Limited Improvement, But Further Actions Could Enhance the Impact of Fed Investment
Highway Bridge Program: Condition of Nation's Bridges Shows Limited Improvement, But Further Actions Could Enhance the Impact of Fed Investment

Author: Phillip R. Herr

Publisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1437936741

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. One in four bridges in the United States is either structurally deficient and in need of repair, or functionally obsolete and is not adequate for today's traffic. The Highway Bridge Program (HBP), the primary source of federal funding for bridges, provided about $7 billion to states in fiscal year 2010. This testimony addresses: (1) the current state of the nation's bridges and the impacts of the HBP; and (2) the extent to which the HBP aligns with principles developed to guide the re-examination of surface transportation programs. This testimony is based on prior reports, updated with bridge data and information provided by agency officials. Charts and tables.