Based on the first edition of Manual for Design of Highway Bridge and Culverts—Beam Bridge, with the prevailing new standards and specifications as the guidance, the book updates, revises and supplements the original manual, emphatically introduces the corresponding structure and architecture of simple-support beam bridge, continuous beam bridge, continuous rigid frame bridge, skew and special bridge,gate-type and slant legged rigid frame bridge and composite girder bridge and design computing methods, and attaches different design computing examples.

The book is the necessary reference book for designers of highway and urban road bridge, but also can be used as reference for college teachers and students of relevant majors in studying the course of bridge engineering.

Liu Xiaoyao, Senior Engineer, now as Vice President of Anhui Provincial Society of Highway; in charge of and involved in the design of a number of bridges, with rich experiences in designing; previously as the member of the technical expert group for many bridges; published a number of works through People’s Communications Publishing House and published or presented dozens of professional technical papers on journals and academic conferences at home and abroad.