Publisher's Synopsis
Accidental, deliberate or natural fire is one of the potential hazards that can affect the integrity and safety of a highway bridge. Although this can cause significant economic and social impact, no books or fire design provisions and references for highway bridges are currently available. This covers important design considerations and mitigation/protection mechanisms for the most common types of highway bridges and includes various destructive and non-destructive methods for evaluating the condition of highway bridges affected by a fire. This will be a valuable resource for structural and bridge engineers, fire protection personnel, researchers and graduate students, in line with currently available codes, standards and guidelines for bridge design.
The authors of the book have extensive experience and, notably, conducted the first ever open hydrocarbon pool fire test on a full-scale one-span prestressed concrete composite bridge with precast girders, precast composite deck and elastomeric bearing pads. In addition, they have expertise in fire modelling and thermo-mechanical analysis of bridges using computational fluid dynamics and finite element software, respectively, and have also conducted various extensive destructive and non-destructive tests for evaluating existing bridges.
