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 ...

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 ...

Crews picked concrete precast girders as heavy as 93.5 tons from a deteriorated bridge over the Williams River and transferred them to the first of two Vermont Interstate 91 bridge replacements, ...

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 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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The lead designer for the planned replacements to the Bourne and Sagamore bridges said twin spans would be the best way to go because they would take traffic off the existing bridges the fastest. John ...