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Bridge Engineering (CE-802 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Types of Bridge Super Structures

  • Introduction and types
  • temporary bridge superstructures, military bridges, other temporary bridges
  • permanent bridges, R.C.C. bridges, Pre-stressed concrete bridges, steel bridges, movable steel bridge
  • Consideration of loads and stresses in road bridges: Introduction, loads, forces and stress, dead loads, bridge loading as per relevant IRC and IRS specifications
  • traffic lanes, foot way, kerbs, railing and parapet loading
  • impact
  • wind load
  • longitudinal forces
  • Temperature effect of live load on back fill and on the abutment
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Unit 2

Design of R.C. Bridge

  • Slab culvert
  • pipe culvert
  • T-beam
  • box culvert bridge super structure
  • Courbone28099s theory for load distribution
  • balanced cantilever bridges
  • design examples
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Unit 3

Design of Steel Bridges

  • Types of steel superstructure
  • plate girder bridge
  • truss bridge
  • wind forces of lattice girder bridge, bracings
  • arch and bowstring girder bridge
  • design example
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Unit 4

Pier, Abutment and Wing Walls

  • Types of piers and abutments
  • stability analysis of piers and abutments
  • design of piers, Forces on piers, stability
  • abutment, bridge code provision for abutments
  • wing walls, design examples
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Unit 5

Foundations and Bearings

  • Types of bridge foundations and general design criteria
  • shallow foundations
  • deep foundations, piles, wells and pneumatic caissons
  • river training works
  • Bearings: functions and types of bearings, necessity of bearings
  • design of elastomeric bearings
  • expansion joints, necessity and types of expansion joints, design considerations

Reference Books

  • Essential of Bridge Engineering, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
  • Concrete Bridge Design, C.R. Books Ltd.
  • Design of Bridges, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
  • Bridge Analysis Simplified, McGraw Hill Book Co. Inc.
  • Bridge Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill
  • Bridge Deck Analysis Simplified, McGraw Hill International Edition
  • Design of Concrete Bridges, Khanna publishers
  • Bridge Deck Behaviour
  • Design of Bridges, Dhanpat Rai & Co
  • Concrete Bridge Design and Practice, Tata McGraw Hill
  • Design of Bridge Structures, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., 2013
  • Indian Standard Codes and IRC codes related to bridges
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