Corrugated steel girders employ a folded web plate—typically sinusoidal or trapezoidal—to enhance buckling resistance under shear loading without adding transverse stiffeners. The corrugation geometry ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

MaineDOT's $50 million project replacing the Frank J. Wood Bridge on Route 201 over the Androscoggin River is complete. The new 815-ft. steel girder bridge includes two lanes, bike lanes and ...

A horizontally curved, precast- concrete, trapezoidal type of box-girder design that shaved some $9 million off an interchange project in Orlando, Fla., is attracting growing interest from the bridge ...

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 ...