About this Training Series # 8
After tracing the development of the Bridge-FORM and how the superstructure section improved from a SOLID SLAB to Arch, to VOIDED SLAB, to CONTINUOUS BEAM, to BOX-FORM, in REINFORCED and PRESTRESSED CONCRETE in COMPOSITE SECTION and STRUCTURAL STEEL, and further, after studying the nuances of Contractors tricks-of-the-trade, very detailed quantity-figures of various types of super and substructures as well as of various specific structural elements, have been given. Various types of RIVERINE BRIDGES and VARIOUS STRUCTURAL FORMS OF FLYOVERS have been considered.
A brief explanatory of the GLOBAL RESILIENT TRANSPORT PROGRAM, the CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON BRIDGES, and the MEANS OF MITIGATING THEIR ADVERSE EFFECTS have been presented in a compendium (concise but comprehensive) manner.
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.”
