Accelerated bridge construction : best practices and techniques

✍ Scribed by Mohiuddin Ali Khan

• Publisher: Elsevier, Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 618
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xiv
Chapter 1 - Introduction to Modern Accelerated Bridge Construction, Pages 1-49
Chapter 2 - Recent Developments in ABC Concepts, Pages 53-102
Chapter 3 - Research and Training in ABC Structural Systems, Pages 103-157
Chapter 4 - Innovative ABC Techniques, Pages 159-212
Chapter 5 - Modular Bridge Construction Issues, Pages 215-256
Chapter 6 - Rapid Bridge Insertions Following Failures, Pages 257-308
Chapter 7 - ABC Planning and Resolving ABC Issues, Pages 309-350
Chapter 8 - Prefabrication of the Superstructure, Pages 353-398
Chapter 9 - Prefabrication of the Substructure and Construction Issues, Pages 399-441
Chapter 10 - Alternative ABC Methods and Funding Justification, Pages 443-488
Chapter 11 - A Review of Chapters, River Bridges, and Conclusions, Pages 489-543
Appendix 1 - Selected Bibliography, Pages 545-565
Index, Pages 567-584
Appendix 2 - Glossary of Terms, Pages e3-e10
Appendix 3 - PennDOT Bridge Inspection Terminology and Sufficiency Ratings, Pages e11-e13
Appendix 4 - Proposed 3 Credits Course for Seniors and Graduate Students, Pages e17-e18
Appendix 5 - Training Courses and Workshops in Accelerated Bridge Construction, Pages e19-e23
Appendix 6, Pages e25-e32
Appendix 7 - ASCE Infrastructure Report Card 2014, Pages e35-e36
Appendix 8 - Survey Form for Scour Countermeasures, Pages e37-e39
Appendix 9 - Rapid Construction of Timber, Aluminum, and Lightweight Bridges, Pages e43-e48
Appendix 10, Page e49
Appendix 11 - Manufacturers of Prefabricated Bridges Using Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC), Page e51