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The award-winning GBP300 million privately funded Second Severn Crossing opened on time and to budget in June 1996. The new 5 km crossing - just south of the 30-year-old Severn Bridge - carries a further six lanes of the M4 motorway over the treacerous Severn Estuary. The papers in this special issue are written by engineers from the Anglo-French design and construction joint venture and will cover project management, planning and construction logistics, design-construction interfaces, marine op...

London has seventeen points where the Thames can be strolled over ranging from the fantastically fruity Tower Bridge to the grim functionalism of Wandsworth. Cross River Traffic tells the history of the current crossings (and their predecessors) - why and how they were built as well as incidents that have occurred on them, from ghost stories to terrorist plots, sexual antics to suicides. The book explores the reasons why the crossings are situated where they are and the effect on the communities...

An integral bridge, while less susceptible to long term damage from road de-icing salts, may face problems due to seasonal thermal movements of the deck which result in interactions between the bridge and the surrounding soil. To obtain full advantage from the use of integral bridges and minimise risk of overstressing the abutments, it is important to obtain a better understanding of the soil structure interaction. This report describes the monitoring of seasonal thermal expansion of an integral...

Because of the inconsistency of performance associated with expansion joints in bridges, a Working Group was created to propose the means to improve their usage and reduce the incidence of premature failure and leakage. The research results of this Working Group (see accompanying report, TRL 236, above) have formed the basis for this guide, which sets out procedures and recommendations for the better use and procurement of bridge expansion joints. This practical guide takes the bridge engineer t...

This book presents a new approach to urban traffic engineering in an integrated, coherent and accessible way. The material on methods and practice is complemented by recent case studies to illustrate the challenges that confront urban traffic engineering schemes in practice. Although the history and traditions of urban traffic engineering differ greatly between countries, there is an emerging international consensus which this book tries to capture.

Bridge Safety and Reliability covers a wide range of applications of modern structural safety and reliability concepts and methods to highway bridge engineering practice. These applications are necessary for improving and rationalizing the design, evaluation, inspection, repair, rehabilitation and management of highway bridges in order to balance lifetime cost and life-cycle reliability in an optimal manner. The topics include: Bridge Reliability Concepts and Methods; Modeling of Bridge Loads; B...

Each book in this series focuses on one topic area, with cross-curricular application. The titles are varied and offer a mix of information through science, art and music activities and linked reading material. Reading exercises are presented as poems, stories, newspaper-style articles and myths and legends. Each title is designed in a child friendly and accessible way, using both artwork and colour photographs. Bridges - This title takes you through time, discussing how bridges were made many y...