Highway Bridge Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Hurt, Mark A.

Book Description

Preference :
The previous statement may appeal to the vanity of those who work with bridges, but it also reflects a truth: bridges are critical assets that provide important value but at a cost. Value, in that each highway bridge is a solution to a problem of how to carry traffic across a river or gorge or another obstacle such as conflicting lanes of traffic.

Cost, in that the solution comes at a price, each section of a bridge deck costs several times more than an equivalent area of roadway both to construct and to maintain over the life of the bridge.

Content :

• 1. Introduction
• 2: Bridge Elements and Materials
• 3: Bridge Inspection and Evaluation
• 4: Preventative Maintenance
• 5: Substantial Maintenance and Rehabilitation
• 6: Bridge Life Cycle Costing
• 7: Bridge Management