Continuous and Integral Bridges. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, B. Pritchard.
• Editors: Pritchard, B
• 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
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 624.25; Structural engineering; Transportation engineering; Structural engineering; Transportation engineering; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482271386; 1482271389
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.