2nd Edition

Bridge Engineering Handbook Seismic Design

Edited By Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan Copyright 2014
    740 Pages 538 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subject.

    Published in five books: Fundamentals, Superstructure Design, Substructure Design, Seismic Design, and Construction and Maintenance, this new edition provides numerous worked-out examples that give readers step-by-step design procedures, includes contributions by leading experts from around the world in their respective areas of bridge engineering, contains 26 completely new chapters, and updates most other chapters. It offers design concepts, specifications, and practice, as well as the various types of bridges. The text includes over 2,500 tables, charts, illustrations, and photos. The book covers new, innovative and traditional methods and practices; explores rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance; and examines seismic design and building materials.

    The fourth book, Seismic Design contains 18 chapters, and covers seismic bridge analysis and design.

    What’s New in the Second Edition:

    • Includes seven new chapters: Seismic Random Response Analysis, Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Bridges, Seismic Design of Thin-Walled Steel and CFT Piers, Seismic Design of Cable-Supported Bridges, and three chapters covering Seismic Design Practice in California, China, and Italy
    • Combines Seismic Retrofit Practice and Seismic Retrofit Technology into one chapter called Seismic Retrofit Technology
    • Rewrites Earthquake Damage to Bridges and Seismic Design of Concrete Bridges chapters
    • Rewrites Seismic Design Philosophies and Performance-Based Design Criteria chapter and retitles it as Seismic Bridge Design Specifications for the United States
    • Revamps Seismic Isolation and Supplemental Energy Dissipation chapter and retitles it as Seismic Isolation Design for Bridges

    This text is an ideal reference for practicing bridge engineers and consultants (design, construction, maintenance), and can also be used as a reference for students in bridge engineering courses.

    Geotechnical Earthquake Considerations

    Steven Kramer and Charles Scawthorn

    Earthquake Damage to Bridges

    Mark Yashinsky, Jack Moehle, and Marc Eberhard

    Dynamic Analysis

    Wei Zhang, Murugesu Vinayagamoorth, and Lian Duan

    Seismic Random Response Analysis

    Jiahao Lin, Yahui Zhang, and Yan Zhao

    Nonlinear Analysis

    Mahamad Akkari and Lian Duan

    Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Bridges

    M J Nigel Priestley, Mervyn J Kowalsky, and Gian Michele Calvi

    Seismic Bridge Design Specifications for the United States

    Roy A Imbsen

    Seismic Design of Concrete Bridges

    Larry Wu

    Seismic Design of Steel Bridges

    Chia-Ming Uang, Michel Bruneau, and Keh-Chyuan Tsai

    Seismic Design of Thin-Walled Steel and CFT Piers

    Yoshiaki Goto

    Seismic Design of Cable Supported Bridges

    Jian Ren Tao and Semyon Treyger

    Seismic Isolation Design for Bridges

    Roy A Imbsen and Larry Wu

    Seismic Retrofit Technology

    Kevin I Keady, Fadel Alameddine, and Thomas E Sardo

    Soil–Foundation–Structure Interaction

    Wen-Shou Tseng and Joseph Penzien

    Seismic Design Practice in California

    Mark Yashinsky and Lian Duan

    Seismic Design Practice in China

    Kehai Wang, Qian Li, Han Wei, and Yue Li

    Seismic Design Practice in Italy

    Gian Michele Calvi, Paolo Emilio Pinto, and Paolo Franchin

    Seismic Design Practice in Japan

    Shigeki Unjoh

    Index

    Biography

    Dr. Wai-Fah Chen is a research professor of civil engineering at the University of Hawaii. He earned his BS in civil engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, MS in structural engineering from Lehigh University in 1963, and PhD in solid mechanics from Brown University in 1966. His interests include constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability, and he has received several national engineering awards. In 1995, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books and 500 technical papers. He is editor-in-chief for the Civil Engineering Handbook, the Handbook of Structural Engineering, the Earthquake Engineering Handbook, and the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering (CRC Press).

    Dr. Lian Duan is a senior bridge engineer and structural steel committee chair with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He earned his diploma in civil engineering in 1975, MS in structural engineering in 1981 from Taiyuan University of Technology, China, and PhD in structural engineering from Purdue University in 1990. His interests include inelastic behavior of reinforced concrete and steel structures, structural stability, seismic bridge analysis, and design. Dr. Duan has authored and coauthored more than 70 papers, chapters, and reports, and is the coeditor of the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering (CRC Press). He has received several awards, including the prestigious 2001 Arthur M. Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.