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Movable Bridge Design provides a fascinating and comprehensive guide of both past and current approaches to the design of a wide range of movable bridges.
Against the background of worldwide development, the author provides the necessary information on the mechanical systems that drive movable bridges. A wide range of structures are explored in an accessible format to be used at a practical level.
Key topics of focus are:
- Design specifications and standards
- Machinery required to operate and stabilise movable spans
- Traditional and non-traditional superstructure forms
- Materials of construction
- Material strength and failure
- Examples of hydraulic, electrical and mechanical systems
Movable Bridge Design considers both city and rural movable bridges by providing worldwide examples, as well as discussing the various forms of motive power. This is an essential purchase to inform and guide engineers, engineering consultants, and administrators of governmental agencies, as well as students from these disciplines.
Charles Birnstiel is a highly accomplished civil engineer with 50 years of technical experience, 20 of which was spent in full-time university teaching and research, and 30 years spent in industry, mostly in the field of movable highway and railway bridges. He is the author of the chapter on movable bridges which appeared in the ICE Manual of Bridge Engineering.