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. Seismic isolation systems. End cross frames. Buckling restrained braces (BRB). Base shear. Displacement. Abstract: The end ...

The Diefenbaker Bridge crosses over the North Saskatchewan River in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. The bridge consists of two structures: one northbound and one southbound. Each structure is a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Contractors on Tuesday night lowered a 52-ton girder assembly on the C-470 bridge over Interstate 70, the site of a fatal bridge accident 15 months ago.

I recently posted on a few of the DOT’s most latest bridge concepts that are in contention to be built at Elmwood Avenue, traversing the Scajaquada Creek (and expressway). The original historic bridge ...

Donated by: Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)& Lunda Construction Original Location: St. Paul, Minnesota Year Built: 1968 Year of Fracture: 1975, girder fracture Replaced: 2014, due to ...