The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one of the largest state departments of transportation in the nation, managing more than 50,000 miles of California’s highways, or about ...

One of the first to explore the artistic potential of reinforced concrete was Swiss engineer Robert Maillart (1872–1940), who in 1947 was the subject of a Museum of Modern Art exhibition celebrating ...

In their competing accounts of what went wrong before last year’s Florida pedestrian bridge collapse, both the contractor and designer agree on one point: The concrete was never “roughened” at ...

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Use modern methods to analyze and design bridges. Upgrade your technical skills to meet the specialized needs of the structural bridge design industry. Apply advanced techniques to evaluate the design ...

Keywords: Accelerated bridge construction (ABC). Precast concrete. Segmental bridges. Seismic design. Shaking table tests. Vertical loads. Two-dimensional (2D) models. Nonlinear dynamic analyses.

Completed in 2019, the concrete structure is part of a pedestrian trail from the village to the nearby cemetery. In fact, architects based their approach on a spiritual concept, imagining, therefore, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Officials with the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program have published several design options for the $5 to $7.5 billion Interstate 5 Bridge replacement planned for the Oregon ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Replacing the Interstate 91 bridge over Route 30 will take more than two years of construction and is expected to cost $50 million, officials said Monday. But at a Vermont Agency of ...

The advertisements of the day provide a local window on the historical moment of the 1950s that built and embraced the Skyway. The Skyway represented what Americans wanted from their cars, ...