Historic Bridges: Evaluation, Preservation, and Management

Published:
April 14, 2008 by CRC Press - 304 Pages
Editor(s):
Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

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ISBN 9781420079951
Cat# 79956
 

Features

  • Explores a variety of bridge designs and materials employed through the ages
  • Demonstrates the ingenuity of bridge designers dating back to ancient China
  • Discusses effective restoration plans that meld historical and aesthetic perspectives
  • Presents a variety of studies from leading civil and structural engineers
  • Includes a wealth of illustrations and engineering tables

    • Summary

    Explore Historic Bridge Design through the Perspective of Modern Engineering

    Historic Bridges:Evaluation, Preservation, and Management provides both an admiring and a technical account of bridge engineering through an exploration of several remarkable examples. From ancient China to modern-day Minnesota, the book discusses the history and structural evaluation of bridges, as well as their preservation, and restoration. With chapters written by renowned engineers, this unique resource —

  • Compares the techniques and materials used in building three railroad bridges that traversed the Mississippi at the same site in 1865, 1887, and 1910
  • Investigates a legendary stone-arch bridge constructed in Ancient China in 606 A.D.
  • Demonstrates how historians and engineers in Milwaukee found an approach to new bridge design that balances modern design standards with aesthetic interpretation
  • Details a collaborative team approach to historic bridge management in Minnesota
  • Considers the design and repair process of rapidly disappearing wrought iron bridges
  • Discusses preservation of stone masonry aqueducts on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

    • An educational treatise for engineers and historical preservationists, this work includes a wealth of illustrations and scientific tables. Demonstrating historic engineering significance beyond their utilitarian function, the bridges encountered in these pages are true landmarks, as worthy of emulation as they are preservation.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction; Steven J. Fenves
    Part 1 History
    The Mississippi River Railway Crossing at Clinton, Iowa; Charles Birnstiel
    The Dragon Bridge of Li Chun in Ancient China; Martin P. Burke, Jr. and Huan Cheng Tang
    Part 2 Management
    Bridging the Gap: Connecting Design and Historic Preservation Goals on Milwaukee County’s Historic Parkway Bridges; Amy R. Squitieri and Bob S. Newbery
    Managing Historic Bridges in Minnesota: The Historian and the Engineer Collaborate; Robert M. Frame III and Steven A. Olson
    Part 3 Evaluation
    Structural Deck Evaluation of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge; Ching Chiaw Choo and Issam E. Harik
    Extant Lenticular Iron Truss Bridges from the Berlin Iron Bridge Company; Alan J. Lutenegger
    Wind and Truss Bridges: Overview of Research; Frederick R. Rutz and Kevin L. Rens
    Mechanical Properties of Wrought Iron from Penns Creek Bridge (1886); Stephen Buonopane and Sean Kelton
    Part 4 Preservation, Rehabilitation and Restoration
    The Preservation of Historic Bridges; Allan King Sloan
    Preservation of Historic Iron Bridges: Adaptive Use Bridge Project, University of Massachusetts–Amherst; Alan J. Lutenegger
    Preservation of Stone Masonry Aqueducts on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Denis J. McMullan and Douglas E. Bond
    Rehabilitation of Two Historic Timber Covered Bridges in Massachusetts; S. D. Daniel Lee and Brian Brenner
    The Historic Rehabilitation of the Market Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Ian C. Engstrom
    Reinventing Squire Whipple’s Bridge; Joseph J. Fonzi and Preston Vineyard

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