Bridge Construction Equipment

Bridge Construction Equipment provides exhaustive coverage of new and emerging bridge constructiontechnology and modern construction methods for all bridge professionals looking to save time, labour andcosts, reduce risk, and increase the value and quality of projects through mechanized bridge construction.Bridge construction equipment is becoming increasingly more complex and sophisticated. With extensiveillustrations, the book explores industry trends for every family of machines and their configurations foroperations, loading, kinematics, launch and lock systems, performance, productivity and structure-equipmentinteraction. Each chapter also includes extensive coverage of deck fabrication.Through numerous case studies, the book examines design and operational flaws, as identified by the authorthroughout his 31 years in the industry, describes the design and procurement of specialist equipment, andprovides an outline of technical specifications for easy adaptation to specific cases.Addressing the needs of bridge owners, architects and forensic, resident and construction engineers, aswell as contractors, designers, manufacturers, inspectors, safety planners and bridge academics, BridgeConstruction Equipment delivers guidance for the use of specialist mechanized equipment during each stageof the bridge construction process.