Design of Highway Bridges

RICHARD M. BARKER, PhD, PE, is Professor of Civil Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A frequent consultant to contractors and design firms on bridge-related projects, he has over forty years of experience with highway bridges as a structural designer, project engineer, and teacher. Dr. Barker is a subconsultant to AASHTO on maintenance of the LRFD specifications and to FHWA on training course development for LRFD design of highway bridge substructures. He is a former member of the Code Coordinating Committee charged with the development of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, and a former co-chairman of the task group for foundations and retaining walls. Dr. Barker serves on the editorial boards of the Structural Engineering Review and the Journal of Bridge Engineering.

JAY A. PUCKETT, PhD, PE, is Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming, and President of Bridge Tech, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in software development for bridge engineering. With fifteen years of experience in bridge research and development, focusing on structural analysis, rating, and physical testing, he has developed software for the analysis and rating of bridge systems that is currently in use at over forty transportation agencies. Dr. Puckett is a consultant to AASHTO on their BridgeWare load rating and bridge design software, and was a consultant on the development of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. He is an editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering and serves on several ASCE committees related to bridges.