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 ...

To speed up design and construction for the replacement bridge, Caltrans turned to a 315-ft, two-lane, clear-span welded-steel-plate-girder design with a reinforced-concrete deck, similar to the ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prof. Mike Bartlett will have lots to talk about Wednesday with his undergraduate class in steel design at the University of Western Ontario. Bartlett, who holds a PhD in civil engineering from the ...