September 20, 2022

Description AASHTO ABC-1: Many state DOTs and the Federal Highway Administration are actively promoting accelerated bridge construction (ABC) to reduce traffic impacts, onsite construction time, environmental impacts, and life cycle costs; and to improve work zone safety, site constructability, material quality, and product durability, while replacing the nation’s transportation infrastructure. With ABC, prefabricated elements reduce […]

Description This guide provides Inspectors with guidelines for routine condition assessment of culverts or storm drains, and includes a reliable and reproducible method to rate the condition of all system components. This component-based rating system enables qualified inspectors to assess common distress types, evaluate their severity, understand their significance, and assign a numerical condition rating

Description he Historic Bridge Preservation Guide is a reference for the preservation and rehabilitation of both fixed and movable historic highway bridges. Historic preservation laws present a unique set of challenges when maintaining bridges, and balancing cultural and historic value with functional safety characteristics requires specialized knowledge and processes. This Guide aims to familiarize all engineers with

Description Dramatically rising asphalt binder cost, dwindling budgets, growing traffic loads, and the desire to find more sustainable paving practices are forcing agencies to seek ways for maximizing the re-use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP). While most of the academic and industrial institutions have been focused on the development of procedures to recycle hot asphalt

Description The Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures: Diaphragms and Shear Walls explains how to calculate the forces to be transferred across multiple discontinuities and reflect the design requirements on construction documents. Step-by-step examples offer progressive coverage, from basic to very advanced illustrations of load paths in complicated structures. The book is based on the 2009 International

Description Construction of Architecture: From Design to Built gives architects, contractors, managers, trade workers, and anyone else involved in a building project a thorough overview of the process of taking or converting a fine design concept from a paper exercise to a finished, full-sized, inhabitable, and usable building.