PENDLETON – As the girders were lifted into place for the West Pendleton Overpass this week, the project took on special significance to Randy and Louise Walker of Pendleton. Their son, Steven, a 1997 ...

Florida agencies are embracing a trapezoidal, curved precast-concrete girder design, used in Colorado more than a decade ago, and Pennsylvania recently has adopted standards for its use. A ...

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 ...

Demolition and inspection of a dozen girders showed tack welding was not the major reason leading to Friday’s order to trash more than 500 concrete beams fabricated by a European subcontractor for the ...

BIG SUR – After Caltrans installed nine pre-cast concrete girders at the Rocky Creek slip-out repair site on Highway 1 during a 24-hour period over the weekend, the roadway has been reopened and ...

Keywords: Design. Recommendations. Load and resistance factor design (LRFD). Seismic design. Bridges. Highways. Multispan continuous bridges. Cast-in-place concrete girders. Bearings. Elastomeric ...

A recently completed research project revealed the potential for reducing material used for a suspension bridge deck by more than 25 per cent -- meaning a saving of up to 30 per cent of CO2 emissions.

Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray is standing behind the decision to dispose of 500 faulty girders made for the Herb Gray Parkway, despite claims Tuesday by the manufacturer that they are ...