Bridge Engineering Handbook

Wai-Fah Chen is a George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University.Lian Duan is a Senior Bridge Engineer with the California Department of Tansportation, U.S., and Professor of Structural Engineering at Taiyuan University of Technology, China.

• Section 3: Substructure Design 26. Bearings 27. Piers and Columns 28. Towers 29. Abutments and Retaining Structures 30. Geotechnical Considerations 31. Shallow Foundations 32. Deep Foundations Section 4: Seismic Design 33. Geotechnical Earthquake Consideration 34. Earthquake Damages to Bridges 35. Dynamic Analysis 36. Nonlinear Analysis of Bridge Structures 37. Seismic Design Philosophy and Performance-based Design Criteria 38. Seismic Design of Concrete Bridges 39. Seismic Design of Steel Bridges 40. Seismic Retrofit Practices 41. Seismic Isolation and Energy Dispassion 42. Soil-Structure-Foundation Interaction 43. Seismic Retrofit Technology 44. Seismic Design Practices in Japan

Winner of a Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, January 2001"All elements of bridge engineering and design are addressed in this weighty handbook which is designed to be a state-of-the-art reference work for the industry in the 21st century. Editors Wai-Fah Chen and Lian Duan have invited contributions from bridge engineers around the world, and the list of authors reads like a 'who's who' of structural engineering."--Bridge Design & Engineering, 4th Quarter 2000, No. 21"…first handbook dedicated to bridge engineering…others cover some of the same ground but not in the breadth and scope of this handbook…any academic or technical library supporting an engineering department should have this handbook."--W. C. Schnobrich, CHOICE, May 2000