This handbook has been produced primarily for 'Practising Engineers' the world-over and should prove a most useful work of reference to Consultants, Contractors and Clients (and even to advanced level students), alike.
The objective is to offer - under one single cover - a fairly comprehensive and yet concise account of almost all the disciplines involved (in their natural sequence of requirement) in order to serve as a ready reference for everyday problems that constantly confront those involved in bridges, whether in the office or in the field. The aim is to help them save time otherwise required to wade through multitude of references and texts.
The material as relevant to bridges has been carefully sieved from the author's other eight reference-type practice-oriented books on various aspects of Concrete Bridges and Contract and Construction Management Practices, published by Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd. (India) and McGraw Hill (New York).
Other books by the same author
- Rainaâs Concrete Bridge Practice: Analysis, Design and Economics, 3rd Edition.
- Rainaâs Concrete Bridge Practice: Construction, Maintenance and Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition.
- Rainaâs Concrete Bridges: Inspection, Repair, Strengthening, Testing & Load Capacity Evaluation, 2nd Edition.
- Rainaâs Concrete for Construction: ~Facts and Practice, 2nd Edition.
- Rainaâs Field Manual for Highway and Bridge Engineers, 3rd Edition.
- Rainaâs Construction & Contract Management Practices, 2nd Edition.
- The World of Bridges
About the Author
Dr. V. K. Raina, Professor Emeritus (-College of Engineering, Pune) - presently the Director Technical at ITNL (- IL&FS Group) - was until recently Technical Advisor to the US (PWA) and for the 40 Km long Bahrain - Qatar Sea-link Project, Govât of Bahrain. Previously he was Senior Expert and Consultant to the United Nations and the World Bank in many countries for many years as also the Team Leader of the United Nations Team of Experts in Saudi Arabia for the multi-billion Dollar extensive Roads network Development and Maintenance program. He was also the Operations Advisor and Independent Consultant to various Consulting Engineering organisations in the fields of Bridges, Contract Management, Construction Management and Capacity Development. As a professional practitioner, Dr. Raina has also trained many host-country senior engineers in these fields through the aegis of the UN and the World Bank.
