Highway Engineering Handbook, 2e - Hardcover

Brockenbrough, Roger; Boedecker, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 007140080X ISBN 13: 9780071400800

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

This comprehensive handbook compiles the full scope of information necessary for effective and cost conscious contemporary highway design. The contributing engineers review environmental issues, location, design, traffic, pavement design and rehabilitation, bridge engineering, culvert design, signing, lighting and life cycle costs, as well as present special discussions on the selection and design of retaining walls to reduce traffic noise and screen unsightly areas. Includes illustrations, maps, graphs, and tables.

About this title

About the Author

Roger L. Brockenbrough (Pittsburgh, PA), is Senior Research Consultant for US Steel Group, USX, and maintains his own consulting business dealing with PC CAD. He is a contributor to Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers and editor of Highway Engineering Handbook.

From the Back Cover

Based on the latest AASHTO Design Codes!

RAMP UP YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF HIGHWAY ENGINEERING!

As America’s infrastructure ages, this carefully designed system of highways and byways demands greater renovations and repairs. And with state and federal regulations continually changing, engineers require up-do-date guidance on the environmental regulations and design codes governing highway construction — along with comprehensive coverage of contemporary highway design. Here’s just the resource they need!

Written with authority by a group of renowned civil engineering experts, Highway Engineering Handbook delivers the full scope of information necessary for effective and cost-conscious highway design. Through the book’s focus on the processes of planning, design, construction, and maintenance rehabilitation, you will:
* Understand the latest AASHTO design codes
* Gain a working knowledge of recent breakthroughs in materials and of applications for material construction and paving processes
* Benefit from a wealth of illustrations, maps, graphs, and tables
* And much, much more!

No matter if you’re a member of the civil engineering consulting community or an engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highways, Highway Engineering Handbook will keep your work in the fast lane!

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007140080X
• ISBN 13: 9780071400800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 850