A Textbook on Bridge Design and Evaluation: LRFD and LRFR
LRFD stands for Load and Resistance Factor Design and LRFR stands for Load and Resistance Factor Rating. It is design and evaluation techniques that have offered as substitute to other traditional techniques considered as the new principles for designing and load-rating U.S. highway bridges. Bridge Design and Evaluation sheds light on complete bridge systems (substructure and superstructure) in one short and snappy, controllable package. It also presents real-world bridge examples illustrating both their design and evaluation using LRFD and LRFR. Especially designed for a 3- to 4-credit undergraduate or graduate-level course, it presents the basics of the topic precisely into highly developed or expert topics.
Key traits contain:
- Elite focus on LRFD and LRFR
- Hundreds of photographs and diagrams of real bridges to bond the theoretical with the practical
- Design and evaluation instances from real bridges including actual bridge plans and drawings and design methodologies
- Several exercise problems
- Explicit design for a 3- to 4-credit course at the undergraduate or graduate level
- The one and only bridge engineering textbook to cover the significant areas of bridge evaluation and rating