Highway Bridge Management provides bridge maintenance engineers and bridge managers with key information necessary to effectively manage highway bridges and structures. The appropriate maintenance of highway bridges is vital to the safe and economic transport of goods and people. Bridge maintenance engineers need a skill set of asset management; inspection and assessment techniques; value engineering and prioritisation methods; repair techniques; legal and safety matters; as well as stakeholder engagement. This book contains all the necessary information required to manage a highway bridge stock effectively. Written by subject-matter experts with many decades of experience, this book covers
asset management
bridge inspection
strength assessment
testing and monitoring
scour
maintenance interventions of masonry, concrete and metallic bridges
specialist highway structures
Additional information
Weight
500 g
ISBN
9780727765543
Publisher
ICE Publishing
Author (s):
Edited by Graham Cole and Richard Fish
Publication Date:
2022
Foreword
Preface
About the editors
About the contributors
Introduction
Carbon and sustainability
Management of bridges
Life-cycle management
Operational management
Bridge inspection
Assessment of load capacity of existing highway bridges
