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 ...

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

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission's independent expert panel that reviewed the 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up plate girders at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center—and made ...

The swing span over the Passaic River is being replaced with a bascule bridge that improves reliability, clearance, and ...

Attendees of a recent presentation on the earthquake-resistant structure of San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center—intended to provide a safe haven when the Big One hits—lauded the engineering of ...

Go big or go home seems to be the state's unofficial rallying cry for the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Virtually everything about the $3.9 billion replacement crossing, from the engineering to the equipment ...