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Bridge Traffic Loading From Research to Practice 1st Edition

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Full Title

Bridge Traffic Loading From Research to Practice 1st Edition

Author(s)

Eugene OBrien, Andrzej Nowak and Colin Caprani

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781000459937, 9781032101361, 9780429318849, 9780367332464, 9781000459913

Publisher

CRC Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

There is considerable uncertainty about what level of traffic loading bridges should be designed for. Codes specify notional load models, generally to represent extreme levels of normal traffic, but these are often crude and have inconsistent levels of safety for different load effects. Over the past few decades, increasing quantities of reliable truck weight data has become available and it is now possible to calculate appropriate levels of bridge traffic loading, both for specific bridges and for a road network. Bridge Traffic Loading brings together experts from all over the world to deliver not just the state-of-the-art of vertical loading, but also to provide recommendations of best-practice for all the major challenges in the field – short-span, single and multi-lane bridge loading, dynamic allowance and long-span bridges. It reviews issues that continue to be debated, such as which statistical distribution is most appropriate, whether free-flowing or congested traffic governs and dealing with future traffic growth. Specialist consultants and bridge owners should find this invaluable, as will regulators.