This work deals comprehensibely with the construction of prestressed concrete bridges of cantliver design,emphasizing the most up-to-date methods and analysing the planning involved in this type of construction
This work deals comprehensibely with the construction of prestressed concrete bridges of cantliver design,emphasizing the most up-to-date methods and analysing the planning involved in this type of construction
It is particulary relevant to practising civil engineers,professors,teachers and students of civil engineering
Foreword
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL BACKGROUND
1.The Principle of cantilever construction
2.History
3.Advantages of the process and field of Application
CHAPTER 2 DECK DESIGN
1.Methods of construction from piers and abutments
2.Organization of the Cantelevers:Choise of Hinged or continuous Beam System
3.Span Distribution
4.Form and size of the transverse cross section
5.Longitudinal section of the decks
6.Deck Cabling Arrangements
7.Final Adjustment of the structure
8.Deflections of the balanced cantilevers and initial compensating
9.Special problems in design and calculation of decks
CHAPTER 3 DESIGN FOR DECK STABILITY DURING CONSTRUCTION
1.Pier structure and deck support conditions
2.Pier with flexible diaphragms
3.Pier with a double line of neoprene bearings
4.Deck stability during construction
5.Some examples of temporary supports
CHAPTER 4.CANTILEVER CONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES BY IN SITU CONCRETING OF THE SEGMENTS
1.Different construction procedures for in situ concreting of segments
2.Construction by mobile concreting carriage carried by the deck
3.Other construction procedures using in situ concreting of the segments
CHAPTER 5.CANTILEVER CONSTRUCTION METHOD BY ASSEMBLING PRECAST SEGMENT
1.Advantages of precasting
2.Segment with glued match-cast joint
3.Segment precasting methods
4.Methocs of segment placing
5.Problems specific to segment with match-cast glued joint
CHAPTER 6. CANTILEVER CONSTRUCTION OF CABLE-STAYED BRIDGES
1.Transition between cantilever bridges and cable-stayed bridges
2.Difference between cable stays and prestressing cables of cantilever bridges
3.Spacing of stay cables
4.History and inventory of bridges with multiple-inglined cables
5.Field of application of cable stayed bridges-Aerodynamic stability
6.Nonlinear behaviour of cable stayed bridges
7.Longitudinal structure-general Arrangement
8.Suspension
9.Towers
10.Transverse cross-section of the strutures
11.Construction problems
12.Temporary use of cable staying durign construction of other types of structures
Bibliography
Index