BRIDGE REHABILITATION
by Wojciech Radomski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Table of Contents (57k)
Preface (59k)
Chapter 1: Introduction, Terminology and General Scope (61k)
About the Author
Wojciech Radomski has given guest lectures at 9 universities in Japan (including Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo) and in the US (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of Connecticut, Storrs) and also in Italy (Politecnico di Milano). He was also the designer or co-designer of over 30 bridge structures and the author of over 50 expert opinions on bridge and other structures.
In the last two decades, the rapid deterioration of bridge structures has become a serious technical and economical problem in many countries, including highly developed ones. Therefore, bridge rehabilitation has also become a very essential factor (sometimes even a decisive one) in contemporary bridge engineering. The book covers in synthetic form nearly all the most important problems concerning bridge rehabilitation, such as bridge superstructure and substructure, the typical damage observed in bridges as well as the assessment and evaluation techniques of their technical condition. The book is intended mainly for postgraduate university students. Therefore, all the problems are mostly presented in their physical, chemical and technical as well as economical aspects. The relevant requirements are treated as objective ones, i.e. irrespective of the rules, standards, regulations or guidelines particular to any country. This approach to the subject gives the book a more general character and therefore makes it a useful text for most civil engineering courses.
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