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 ...

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 ...

One promising technique for the seismic design of highway bridges with steel superstructures is to dissipate energy through the inelastic deformation of the end cross frames. These so-called ductile ...

The Grist Mill Bridge, a 75-ft single-span bridge in Hampden, Maine, is the first in the nation to use composite tub girders with no concrete reinforcement in the superstructure, say officials. The ...

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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 ...

The proposed third bridge across the Willamette River in Salem would likely be made of concrete rather than steel arches or steel girders. After narrowing the list of potential bridge designs, the ...