Handbook of International Bridge Engineering

This comprehensive and up-to-date reference work and resource book covers state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice for bridge engineering worldwide. Countries covered include Canada and the United States in North America; Argentina and Brazil in South America; Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine in the European continent; China, Indonesia, Japan, Chinese Taipei, and Thailand in Asia; and Egypt, Iran, and Turkey in the Middle East. The book examines the use of different materials for each region, including stone, timber, concrete, steel, and composite. It examines various bridge types, including slab, girder, segmental, truss, arch, suspension, and cable-stayed. A color insert illustrates select landmark bridges. It also presents ten benchmark comparisons for highway composite girder design from different countries; the highest bridges; the top 100 longest bridges, and the top 20 longest bridge spans for various bridge types including suspension, cable-stayed, extradosed, arch, girder, movable bridges (vertical lift, swing, and bascule), floating, stress ribbon, and timber; and bridge construction methods.

Bridge Engineering in Canada Joost Meyboom Bridge Engineering in the United States M Myint Lwin and John M Kulicki Bridge Engineering in Argentina Tomás A del Carril Bridge Engineering in Brazil Augusto Carlos de Vasconcelos, Gilson L Marchesini, and Júlio Timerman Bridge Engineering in Bosnia and Herzegovina Boris Koboevic, Bisera Karalic–Hromic, and Damir Zenunovic Bridge Engineering in Bulgaria Doncho Partov and Dobromir Dinev Bridge Engineering in Croatia Jure Radic and Goran Puž Bridge Engineering in the Czech Republic Jiri Strasky Bridge Engineering in Denmark Niels Jørgen Gimsing Bridge Engineering in Finland Esko Järvenpää Bridge Engineering in France Jean-Armand Calgaro Bridge Engineering in Greece Stamatios Stathopoulos Bridge Engineering in Macedonia Tihomir Nikolovski and Dragan Ivanov Bridge Engineering in Poland Jan Biliszczuk, Jan Bien´, Wojciech Barcik, Pawel Hawryszków, and Maciej Hildebrand Bridge Engineering in Russia Simon A Blank and Vadim A Seliverstov Bridge Engineering in Serbia Radomir Folic Bridge Engineering in the Slovak Republic Ivan Baláž Bridge Engineering in Turkey Cetin Yilmaz, Alp Caner, and Ahmet Turer Bridge Engineering in Ukraine Mykhailo Korniev Bridge Engineering in China Quan Qin, Gang Mei, and Gongyi Xu Bridge Engineering in Indonesia Wiryanto Dewobroto, Lanny Hidayat and Herry Vaza Bridge Engineering in Iran Shervin Maleki Bridge Engineering in Japan Masatsugu Nagai, Yoshiaki Okui, Yutaka Kawai,Masaaki Yamamoto, and Kimio Saito Bridge Engineering in Chinese Taipei Y B Yang, Dyi-Wei Chang, Dzong-Chwang Dzeng, and Ping-Hsun Huang Bridge Engineering in Thailand Ekasit Limsuwan and Amorn Pimanmas Bridge Engineering in Egypt Mourad M Bakhoum Benchmark Designs of Highway Composite Girder Bridges Shouji Toma Highest Bridges Eric Sakowski Longest Bridges and Bridge Spans Lian Duan Index

Dr. Wai-Fah Chen is a research professor of civil engineering at the University of Hawaii. He was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2007, and a George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from 1976 to 1999. He received his BS in civil engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, MS in structural engineering from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and PhD in solid mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. His interests include constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. Dr. Lian Duan is a senior bridge engineer and Structural Steel Committee chair with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), United States. He worked at the North China Power Design Institute from 1975 to 1978 and taught at Taiyuan University of Technology from 1981 to 1985. He received his diploma in civil engineering in 1975, MS in structural engineering in 1981 from Taiyuan University of Technology, and PhD in structural engineering from Purdue University in 1990. Dr. Duan’s research interests cover areas including inelastic behavior of reinforced concrete and steel structures, structural stability, seismic bridge analysis, and design.