Raina's Bridge.... BRIDGE WORKMAN Series # 10 of 23
- This booklet covers - in a workman-like manner - FIVE important Bridge-Design issues, viz:
- Can Design be taught
- The basic principles of practical structural Analysis and Design of a Bridge
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Estimating Safe Bearing Capacity of Substrata for Footings, Wells and Piles.
- Some details about PRESTRESSED CONCRETE and PRESTRESSING.
- Estimating the “Nett Dependable Passive – Less – Active Earth-Pressure relief from the undisturbed soil-mass gripping the Well-foundation between MAXIMUM-SCOUR-LEVEL to FOUNDING-LEVEL”
The solutions are explained ‘simply’ in a workman-like manner that is at once methodical, practical, coherent, easy to comprehend, and is devoid of any complicated jargon that many of these subjects are steeped-in…..All in all, a welcome change from the usual rigmarole.
About the Author: Dr. V. K. Raina
Team Leader of the UN Team-of-Experts for over 10 years for Multi-Billion US $ Highways-&-Bridges Projects in the Middle East; Ph.D. and D.I.C. from the Imperial College, University of London, England; Double GOLD Medalist at the Engineering Graduation; Registered Chartered Engineer in the UK and Europe; Registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada; Consultant and Senior Expert for nearly 17 years with The UN, The World Bank, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and The African Development Bank, and Resource-person with The Asian Development Bank; AND
Technical Advisor to many Govts. and States; ALSO Professor-Emeritus; Distinguished CHAIR Professor BRIDGES (AICTE), Life-time Achievement Awardee in Civil Engineering in the fields of BRIDGE: Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation-and-Retrofitting; recipient of the coveted S.B.Joshi Award of Excellence in Bridge Engineering; has professionally worked in over 20 Countries and trained hundreds of Engineers in the above fields; has DESIGNED and SUPERVISED CONSTRUCTION of over 1,10,000 lane-meters of CONCRETE BRIDGES in different countries on various types of foundations in different substrata conditions [in POST-TENSIONED and PRE-TENSIONED PRESTRESSED Concrete and REINFORCED concrete, Straight / Skew / Curved-Continuous, Semi-Continuous and Determinate-Superstructures (voided slabs, boxes, beams-and-slab), constructed segmentally, in-place or precast in place / launched; on caisson / pile / open foundations]……has authored 16 PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE-CLASS Books of INTERNATIONAL STANDING and over 100 Professional Technical PAPERS and ADVISORIES.……In addition, he has INVESTIGATED and EXAMINED the STRUCTURAL and FORENSIC HEALTH of many Bridges-and Retrofitted many-in various Countries: RATU, SHIVA GANGA, JHARAI and other Bridges in Nepal, MAHAD in Maharashtra, TALLAH, DUNLOP and VIVEKANANDA Flyovers in Kolkata, SUKTEL in Odisha, KATNI in M.P., being only a few examples at random.”
