Conceptual Design of Bridges (gnv64)

Conceptual Design of Bridges
by X. Haifan
S.K. Kataria & Sons | June 2011 | ISBN 978-7-114-08864-3 | ePUB | 14.9 mb
http://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Design-Bridges-X-Haifan-ebook/dp/B00ZHN82BY

2007 onwards, Bridge Engineering at Tongji University decided to open a new course
“Concept Bridge Design” for graduate students in order to bring forward a new generation
of bridge engineers with conceptual design capabilities to overcome the shortcoming
in innovative ideas quality and aesthetic considerations in China’s bridge engineering.
The course started in the Spring of 2008, first in the form of lectures given by
several young professor in the division. 2008 summer, Professor Hoi Fan also joined
the ranks of the course construction, participated in determining the teaching guideline,
and co-authored with Professor Xiao Rucheng

We hope that the publication of “the concept of bridge design” can bring inspiration and encouragement to Chinese students majoring in bridges sector as well as colleagues to overcome the deficiencies in China’s bridge design, to come out of misunderstanding, and to help the education of bridge engineering in Chinese Universities rid of the shackles of traditional materials and methods and to keep up with the international engineering education reform. We welcome all feedbacks, especially to the errors in the book, from colleagues bridge engineering for future amendment in the second edition in order to further improve this “Conceptual Bridge Design” and make it a compulsory textbooks for 21st century bridge engineers.

CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Aesthetic Bridge Design
• Basic Factors to be Considered in the Conceptual Design
• Case Analysis of Innovative Ideas in the Conceptual Design
• Disaster Prevention and Durability of Bridge Structures
• Bridge Structure System and Key Mechanics Questions
• Solving New Problem in the Conceptual Design
• Conceptual Design of Urban Bridge.