Design of Highway Bridges: LRFD Approach

One of best suggested method to design highway bridges is by using LFRD approach. Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) methodology or method is implemented based on strength analysis of concrete building, particularly for design of highway building.

AISC Steel Construction Manual (SCM) states that the use of LFRD approach can lead us to determine resistance and safety factor of such structures more accurately, consistently, efficiently and efficiently. Though, we can use Allowable Stress Design (ASD) methodologies, but it only combines two safety factors into a single factor of safety.

If you are new to LFRD approach for designing highway bridges, it is highly recommended to learn step by step design by reading Design of Highway Bridges: LRFD Approach book, written by Richard M. Barker and Jay A. Puckett. The authors include al theories and applications to get better design of highway bridges. Numerical analysis methods and techniques are also provided to cover structural analysis and approaches for all highway bridge designs in real world applications.

Design of Highway Bridges: LRFD Approach book includes solving worked problems that are used to design, select bridges type based on technical and aesthetic issues and also to analyze axle and lane loads on steel highway bridges and other concrete building. Design of Highway Bridges: LRFD Approach book can be considered as best reference for senior engineering students and practical engineers to learn fundamental concepts and theories of LFRD methods and knowledge of bridge design.

Design of Highway Bridges: An LRFD Approach
Richard M. Barker and Jay A. Puckett
Wiley; 2 edition (November 28, 2006)
1032 pages

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