Bridge Construction Equipment provides exhaustive coverage of new and emerging bridge construction technology and modern construction methods for all bridge professionals looking to save time, labour and costs, reduce risk, and increase the value and quality of projects through mechanized bridge construction.
Bridge construction equipment is becoming increasingly more complex and sophisticated. With extensive illustrations, the book explores industry trends for every family of machines and their configurations for operations, loading, kinematics, launch and lock systems, performance, productivity and structure-equipment interaction. Each chapter also includes extensive coverage of deck fabrication.
Through numerous case studies, the book examines design and operational flaws, as identified by the author throughout his 31 years in the industry, describes the design and procurement of specialist equipment, and provides an outline of technical specifications for easy adaptation to specific cases.
Addressing the needs of bridge owners, architects and forensic, resident and construction engineers, as well as contractors, designers, manufacturers, inspectors, safety planners and bridge academics, Bridge Construction Equipment delivers guidance for the use of specialist mechanized equipment during each stage of the bridge construction process.
Introduction
Chapter 1 : Beam Launchers
Chapter 2 : Self-Launching Gantries for Span-by-Span Erection of Precast Segments
Chapter 3 : Launching Gantries for Macro-Segmental Construction
Chapter 4 : Movable Scaffolding Systems (MSS) for In-Place Span-by-Span Casting
Chapter 5 : Forming Carriages for the Deck Slab of Composite Bridges
Chapter 6 : Self-Launching Equipment for Balanced Cantilever Construction
Chapter 7 : Special Equipment for Precast Spans
Chapter 8 : Design Loads and Load Combinations
Chapter 9 : Analysis and Design
Chapter 10 : From Procurement to Safe Operations
Chapter 11 : Forensics
Terminology/Glossary
References
Acknowledgements
