As anationally planned textbook for regular higher education during the “11thFive-Year Plan” period, this book is composed of six chapters, covering theknowledge of steel girder bridge, steel arch bridge, suspension bridge, steelcable-stayed bridge, steel-concrete girder bridge, manufacture and constructionof steel bridge, and so on. This book, with complete content and detaileddescription, systemically introduces the structure system, design andconstruction principle, calculation principles and methods as well asconstruction points of all sorts of steel bridges in detail. It also integratestheories with living examples to provide a practical reference for those whowant to learn steel bridge.

Besides a didacticwork for institutions of higher learning civil engineering, this book is alsoapplicable for technical personnel who worked on bridge projects.

XuJunlan, a professor of Chongqing Transportation University, was rewarded withGovernmental Special Allowance from the State Council of China in 1994. She hastaken charge of the research of Long-Span Suspension Bridge Structure System, aNational Nature Science Foundation of China and participated in the design andscientific research of many bridges in Chongqing, Guangdong Humen Bridge,Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway Xicheng River Bridge, Guangxi Jinglan Bridge andsome other bridges. Suspension Hanging Basket Design raised by her wasawarded the Second Chongqing Technology prize. She has obtained the Science andTechnology Progress Grand Prize of Ministry of Transport for Jinglan BridgeProject. She has won Sichuan Excellent Teaching Achievement Prize and theSecond Prize of Excellent Teaching Material, Bridge Engineering(the secondvolume), awarded by the Ministry of Transport. What’s more, she used toedit many famous works.