Modern Steel Highway Bridges

Steel bridges are widely used in highway transportation systems throughout the world. The light weight and high strength of steel make it especially suitable for long and complex bridges, offering relative durability, and facilitating fast construction, inspection, retro strengthening, and widening. In recent years the materials, analytical methods, and design philosophy of steel bridges have advanced significantly. This book is for bridge engineers who have less design experience and for senior university students learning how to design many types of steel bridges, including box, truss, arch, and cable-supported bridges, covering relationships between design techniques, analysis, specifications, and construction, along with rating methods for diverse types of steel bridges. It gives simple design examples based on AASHTO LRFD Design Specifications for each of the main bridge types. The author brings a strong background in mathematics and engineering mechanics, extensive actual related bridge design experience, and sound writing and teaching skills to simply explain complex ideas.