Owners of endangered highway bridges around the country have taken few immediate steps to fortify them from catastrophic accidents, a POLITICO review has found nearly two years after the deadly ...
If you’ve ever driven across the Gervais Street bridge, which connects downtown Columbia and West Columbia over the Congaree River, and tensed up from the tight lanes, you’re not alone. Built in the ...
Massachusetts-based startup Allium Engineering says its stainless-steel-bonded reinforcing bar can push bridge deck service life to 100 years or more without changing how contractors build—and the ...
Timber is part of the foundation of American infrastructure. Sometimes used for pedestrian and bike bridges, they are far from nostalgic throwbacks. Modern timber bridges are high-performance, ...
The rebuilt Francis Scott Key Bridge will have to accommodate not just the ships and trucks of today, but those of a 100 years from now. In February, the state of Maryland released the design for a ...
In recent years only a handful of U.S. bridges had Dali-sized ships pass under them more frequently than Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Francis Scott Key Bridge, according to data released this ...
Bridges are an essential part of many communities worldwide, and understanding the process of designing and constructing them is key to building safe and stable structures. The design and construction ...
Load testing of bridges is a practice as old as bridge engineering. In the past, load testing was used upon opening of a newly built bridge to show the traveling public that this structure is safe for ...
Bridge engineering software solutions are oriented toward professionals and students looking for powerful civil engineering tools to help them analyze, design, and generate bridge models. With the aid ...