Bridge Design

Index

a

• Abutment:
  • actions 75
  • analysis and design criteria 444–446
  • anchored abutments 448–449
  • front and wing walls design 446–447
  • overall stability 445
  • typologies and functions 241–245
• Acceleration:
  • action 73, 77–78
  • comfort 370
  • horizontal deck 370–372
  • peak ground 122
  • seismic 119, 121
  • spectral 123–124, 424
  • vertical deck 323, 368, 370, 372
• Actions:
  • abutment actions 75
  • accidental loads 63, 124
  • braking and acceleration 72, 75, 77–78
  • centrifugal forces 73, 74, 78
  • creep, shrinkage and relaxation 109–117
  • dead load 65
  • differential settlements 117–119
  • during construction 125
  • dynamic loads 79–84
  • earth pressure 75, 78, 444, 445
  • footways and cycle tracks 74–75
  • friction in bridge bearings 119
  • hydrodynamic actions 98–99
  • imposed deformations 118
  • Pedestrian parapets 75
  • prestressing 327–329
  • superimposed dead loads 65–66
  • thermal actions 99–109
  • traffic vertical loading, highway 68–72
  • traffic vertical loading, railway 76–77
  • walkways for maintenance 78
  • wind actions 84–98
  • seismic actions 121–124
• Aerodynamic coefficients 89
• Aerodynamic instability:
  • divergent amplitude 95–98
  • flutter 96
  • vortex shedding 94
• Aesthetics:
  • formal aspects 256
  • colours, shadows and detailing 268–272
  • order and continuity 260–262
  • piers 267–268
  • shape and function 258–260
  • slenderness and transparency 262–266
  • symmetries and asymmetries 266–267
  • Urban bridges 272–277
• Alignment, bridge:
  • vertical and horizontal 38–46
  • transverse 46–49

b

• Balanced cantilever method 212–221
• Behaviour factor 124
• Beam on elastic foundation ...