Accelerated bridge construction : best practices and techniques / Mohiuddin Ali Khan Ph.D., M. Phil., DIC, P.E., Chartered Engineer (England) Chartered Member, SEI of ASCE, Consulting Engineer and Adjunct Professor at Temple University, USA.

The traveling public has no patience for prolonged high cost construction projects. This puts highway construction contractors under intense pressure to minimize traffic disruptions and construction cost. Actively promoted by the Federal Highway Administration, there are hundreds of Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) construction programs in the United States, Europe and Japan. This book provides a wide range of construction techniques, processes and technologies designed to maximize bridge construction and reconstruction operations while minimizing project delays and community disruptions. • Describes design using methods for accelerated bridge structure construction; reducing foundation construction time and methods by using pile bents. • Explains applications to steel bridges, temporary bridges in place of detours using quick erection and demolition. • Covers design build systems boon to ABC; development of software; use of fiber reinforced polymer(FRP) • Includes applications to glulam and sawn lumber bridges, precast concrete bridges, precast joins details; use of light weight aggregate concrete, aluminum and high performance steel.

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