The city of Erie — based on citizen input — plans to replace the Kahkwa Bridge over Ravine Drive on the city’s west side with a new multi-girder bridge made of concrete and steel that would cost up to ...

The bottom flanges of two tapered plate girders at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center fractured several weeks after the bus depot opened to the public in 2018. The American Institute of Steel ...

Florida agencies are embracing a trapezoidal, curved precast-concrete girder design, used in Colorado more than a decade ago, and Pennsylvania recently has adopted standards for its use. A ...

Washington state has abandoned the idea of building a tall cable-stayed span for the Portage Bay stretch of Highway 520. Instead, the state is going with the less-expensive and lower-profile ...

The next time you’re tooling along Interstate 465 on the west side, take notice of the girders supporting the new 21st Street bridge. You might see more of them in the future. The experimental ...

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Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have carried out a detailed simulation showing how a common type of bridge fails during large-scale earthquakes. They modeled “I-shaped ...

Demolition and inspection of a dozen girders showed tack welding was not the major reason leading to Friday’s order to trash more than 500 concrete beams fabricated by a European subcontractor for the ...