Modern Prestressed Concrete Highway Bridge Superstructures





Preface

This book has been written with the intention of describing the fundamental

structural behavior of the most commonly used prestressed concrete

bridges. The authors believe the contents of this book will be especially

useful to engineers having little or no previous experience in the design of

prestressed concrete bridges as well as those whose practice includes an

occasional bridge design. The first chapter is devoted to basic information and serves as a founda-

tion for subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 is devoted to girder bridges. The authors elected to use this

name over “stringer bridge” in view of the fact that the term “stringer” is

not applied to beams of reinforced or prestressed concrete in the Standard

Specifications for Highway Bridges which is published by the American

Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. This form of

concrete bridge has been the type most commonly used in the United

States. Its use has been widespread and is expected to continue. Methods

of analysis for girder bridges which have been in use in Europe for a number

of years are presented in this chapter. These methods have not been



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