Bridges

Moving Toward Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Bridges collects the keynote lectures and technical papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2026, Orlando, Florida, USA, 6-10 July 2026).

Moving Toward Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Bridges collects the keynote lectures and technical papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2026, Orlando, Florida, USA, 6-10 July 2026).

In the last few years, remarkable technological advances have been achieved in bridge engineering technology.

Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess.

Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess.

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2010, the Fifth International Conference of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA from July 11 through 15, 2010.

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook.

Footbridge Vibration Design presents new approaches, numerical tools and experimental tools for assessing and controlling pedestrian effects.

Explore Historic Bridge Design through the Perspective of Modern EngineeringHistoric Bridges:Evaluation, Preservation, and Management provides both an admiring and a technical account of bridge engineering through an exploration of several remarkable examples.

An Insiders' Guide to Inspecting, Maintaining, and Operating BridgesSuspension bridges are graceful, aesthetic, and iconic structures.

Straddling the Hudson where the river begins to narrow and twist in its journey, the Bear Mountain Bridge stands as an elegant memorial to the shifting industrial culture of the United States between the two world wars.

Guidance on Protecting and Extending the Life of Suspension BridgesSuspension bridges are graceful, aesthetic, and iconic structures.

Advances in predictive maintenance and smart technology enable structural health monitoring (SHM) of critical infrastructure like bridges.

Advances in predictive maintenance and smart technology enable structural health monitoring (SHM) of critical infrastructure like bridges.

Bridges and Sustainability: Best practice for design, maintenance, and replacement provides a comprehensive evaluation of sustainability topics related to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of bridges.

Bridges and Sustainability: Best practice for design, maintenance, and replacement provides a comprehensive evaluation of sustainability topics related to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of bridges.

Britain's Inland Road Bridges looks at the many and varied types of road bridges found within inland Britain.

June 1997 marked the opening of the Confederation Bridge which spans the Northumberland Strait and connects Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick.

A well-illustrated and comprehensive account of various aspects of local buckling in bridges, this book covers the theory and background of buckling, presenting simple design calculations which address this intriguing phenomenon.

The design of bridges across rivers and streams is a major component of many civil engineering projects.

Gain Confidence in Modeling Techniques Used for Complicated Bridge StructuresBridge structures vary considerably in form, size, complexity, and importance.

The interaction phenomenon is very common between different components of a mechanical system.

Nonlinear static monotonic (pushover) analysis has become a common practice in performance-based bridge seismic design.

The ever-increasing traffic demands, coupled with deteriorating condition of bridge structures, present great challenges for maintaining a healthy transportation network.

In-depth, comprehensive and up-to-date information on the powerful finite strip method of analysis of bridges.

Many important advances in designing earthquake-resistant structures have occurred over the last several years.

Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering.

This book describes the enormous depth of work carried out since the early 1970s on the Messina Strait Bridge, up to the recent award of the detailed design and construction contract.

Examining the fundamental differences between design and analysis, Robert Benaim explores the close relationship between aesthetic and technical creativity and the importance of the intuitive, more imaginative qualities of design that every designer should employ when designing a structure.

This book provides an overview of post-tensioning (PT) in reinforced concrete bridge structures.

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook.

The dynamic behaviour of bridges strongly affects the infrastructure system of high-speed railways, and is a crucial factor in safety issues and passenger comfort.

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.

A How-To Guide for Bridge Engineers and DesignersHighway Bridge Superstructure Engineering: LRFD Approaches to Design and Analysis provides a detailed discussion of traditional structural design perspectives, and serves as a state-of-the-art resource on the latest design and analysis of highway bridge superstructures.

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of The Bridge Engineering Handbook.

Continually increasing demands on infrastructures mean that maintenance and renewal require timely, appropriate action that maximizes benefits while minimizing cost.

Cable stayed bridges are seen as the alternative that fills the gap between long span bridges and suspension bridges.

This volume contains invited contributions from eight of the Gold Medal winners of the Institution of Structural Engineers, presented at the seminar held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to the Institution.

Captures Current Developments in Bridge Design and MaintenanceRecent research in bridge design and maintenance has focused on the serviceability problems of older bridges with aging joints.

This book presents a detailed overview of 20 cases of famous and other highly interesting bridge collapses over the last two centuries.

Around the world, bridge failures are occurring on an almost monthly basis.

Around the world, bridge failures are occurring on an almost monthly basis.

This book describes the underlying behaviour of steel and concrete bridge decks.

On Thursday evening, May 23, 2013, the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed due to impact by an oversize truck, dumping vehicles and people into the water.

This book contains the invited contributions to the 1993 Henderson Colloquium organised by the British Group of IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering).

This book provides an overview of post-tensioning (PT) in reinforced concrete bridge structures.

This book presents the analysis and design of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge decks, which have been increasingly implemented in rehabilitation projects and new construction due to their reduced weight, lower maintenance costs, and enhanced durability.

The second edition of this bestselling handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge-from planning to construction to maintenance.

There are thousands of road bridges all over Britain with many being found around the coastline.

Helping readers prepare for the civil and structural PE exam, this book presents numerous design examples that serve as a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to basic bridge design using the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, Fifth Edition.