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Design and Construction
of
HIGHWAY BRIDGES
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Design and Construction
of
HIGHWAY BRIDGES
K S Rakshi t
BSc, BE( Cal), FIE(Ind)
Retired Chief Engineer, Public Works Dept, Govt ofWB
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Design and Construction of Highway Bridges
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THE AUTHOR The author is a retired ChiefEngineerof the Public Works Department of the Government of West Bengal and was associated with the design and construction of various types of Bridges throughout his service career in various capacities starting from the Assistant Engineer upto the rank of Chief Engineer. In addition, he devoted considerable time in studying practical problems and published as many as 30 (thirty) technical papers dealing with theoretical and practical aspects of highways and highway bridges based on his long experience and field studies in the science of bridge engineering. The author is a Life Member of the Indian Roads Congress and Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). The author acted as a member of the Bridges Committee as well as various other Committees of the Indian Roads Congress in connection with the preparation of the Standard Specification and Code of Practice for Road Bridges. The author was also a member of few code making committees of the Bureau of Indian Standards (ISI). Due to his expert knowledge in bridge and structural engineering, the author wa