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Load Testing of Bridges

Current Practice and Diagnostic Load Testing
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Load Testing of Bridges presents a comprehensive exploration of bridge load testing through contributions from nearly fifty international experts. Volume 12 covers the historical development and current global guidelines, details the practical steps for preparing, executing, and analysing load tests, and examines diagnostic approaches to assess bridge integrity.
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Ideal for researchers, academics, civil and structural engineers, and road authorities seeking in-depth understanding of bridge load testing practices and diagnostics.

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Part one of the edited two-volume set, featuring almost fifty contributions from around the world, deals with the practical aspects, scientific developments, and international views on the topic of load testing of bridges.

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Load Testing of Bridges, featuring contributions from almost fifty authors from around the world across two interrelated volumes, deals with the practical aspects, the scientific developments, and the international views on the topic of load testing of bridges.

Volume 12, Load Testing of Bridges: Current practice and Diagnostic Load Testing, starts with a background to bridge load testing, including the historical perspectives and evolutions, and the current codes and guidelines that are governing in countries around the world. The second part of the book deals with preparation, execution, and post-processing of load tests on bridges. The third part focuses on diagnostic load testing of bridges.

This work will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of civil/structural engineering, practicing engineers and road authorities worldwide.

Series: Structures and Infrastructures

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367210823

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 July 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 27 Tables, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Eva Lantsoght

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 766g

Pages: 346

About the Author

Dr. Lantsoght graduated with a Masterโ€™s Degree in Civil Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) in 2008. She later earned a Master's degree in Structural Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in 2009 and the title of Doctor in Structural Engineering from Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, the Netherlands) in 2013. The work experience of Dr. Lantsoght includes design work in structural and bridge engineering in Belgium (Establis, and Ney & Partners) and working as an independent consultant in structural engineering in Ecuador (Adstren). Dr. Lantsoght is an active member of the technical committees of the Transportation Research Board in Concrete Bridges (AFF-30) and Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures (AFF-40), a member of the technical committees of the American Concrete Institute and Deutscher AusschuรŸ fรผr Stahlbeton Shear Databases (ACI-DAfStb-445-D), and the joint ACI-ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) committee on Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs (ACI-ASCE 421), and an associate member of the committees on Evaluation of Concrete Bridges and Concrete Bridge Elements (ACI 342), on Shear and Torsion (ACI-ASCE 445), and on Strength Evaluation of Existing Concrete Structures (ACI 437). In the academic field, Dr. Lantsoght is a full professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Quito, Ecuador) and a researcher at Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, Netherlands). Her field of research is the design and analysis of concrete structures and analysis of existing bridges.

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