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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...