Bridge Management
M. J. Ryall(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
Published on 11. July 2001
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-7506-5077-9 (ISBN)
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Description
As the emphasis in construction moves from building new bridges to maintenance and rehabilitation of existing stock, bridge management is becoming an increasingly important subject. "Bridge Management" is a comprehensive, single volume book for professionals and postgraduates on bridge management. It focuses on inspection, assessment, testing, evaluation, repair, as well as financial aspects such as whole life costing. Highly illustrated with colour, and including examples of practice and techniques drawn from around the world, the book will be invaluable to the bridge engineer. It gives comprehensive coverage of this important subject. It covers not only testing, assessment etc but also the financial/management issues. It is highly illustrated with line drawings and photographs including colour.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Approx. 250 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-5077-9 (9780750650779)
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M. Ryall
Bridge Management, Second Edition
Book
11/2009
2nd Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€235.22
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Content
Bridge management systems * Inspection and condition rating * Assessment and evaluation * Non-destructive testing * Load testing * Repair * Strengthening * Bridge modification * Whole-life costing and deterioration modelling * Durability and protection * Stress measurement and monitoring * Risk and reliability