Design of Concrete Bridges: As per Latest IRC Codes

Description

Design of Concrete Bridges deals with the design of concrete bridges as per the Indian standard IRC:112-2011. This easy-to-read textbook targets undergraduate students of Civil Engineering and postgraduate students of Structural Engineering. Practicing Engineers would also get to understand the background behind design provisions in IRC:112 from this book. Throughout the book, great emphasis is laid on developing a good understanding of the behaviour of different components of concrete bridges.

About the Author

Dr. Praveen Nagarajan had his Civil Engineering education from NIT Calicut and IIT Madras. He was a top-ranking student throughout. After a brief stint as a Bridge Design Engineer at L&T Ramboll, Chennai, he took to academics. His areas of interest are Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete, Bridge Engineering and Structural Reliability. He has published more than 90 technical papers in these areas and has authored the books Prestressed Concrete Design (published by Pearson) and Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis (published by CRC).

Table of Contents

Book Review

Chapter 1: Introduction to Bridges

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Components of Bridges

1.3 Classification of Bridges

1.4 Selection of the Type of Bridge 1

Chapter 2: Road Bridges

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Limit State Design

2.3 Characteristic and Design Loads and Strength of Materials

2.4 Loads for Design of Road Bridges

2.5 Materials

2.6 Stress–Strain Relations of Materials

2.7 Singly Reinforced Section under Bending

2.8 Design of Flexural Member for Shear

2.9 Design for Torsion

2.10 Checks at Serviceability Limit State

Chapter 3: Slab Bridges

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Design of One-Way Slabs Subjected to Concentrated Loads

3.3 Dispersion Along the Span – Effective Length

3.4 Dispersion Along the Support Direction – Effective Width

3.5 Load for Analysis

3.6 Stresses due to Temperature

Chapter 4: Box Culvert

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Analysis of Box Culvert

Chapter 5: Tee Beam Bridges

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Components of Tee Beam Bridges

5.3 Analysis of Two-Way Slabs Subjected to Concentrated Loads

5.4 Courbon’s Method

5.4.1 Reaction Factor using Courbon’s Method

Chapter 6: Box Girder Bridges

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Behaviour and Design of Box Girder Bridge

Chapter 7: Prestressed Concrete Bridges

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Classification of Prestressed Concrete

7.3 Determination of Stresses in Prestressed Concrete Member

7.4 Design Loading Stages and Prestressing Force

7.5 Stress Inequalities

7.6 Minimum Section Modulus

7.7 Minimum Prestressing Force and Maximum Eccentricity of Prestressing Force

7.8 Ultimate Moment of Resistance MR

7.9 Design Procedure

Chapter 8: Bearings and Substructures

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Bearings

8.3 Abutments and Piers

Summary

Review Questions

Exercises

Bibliography

Index