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. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response ...

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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 ...

The steel fabricator for the third-floor tapered, built-up plate girders at the troubled Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco is calling for a girder-hanger connection design review as part of ...

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Crews picked concrete precast girders as heavy as 93.5 tons from a deteriorated bridge over the Williams River and transferred them to the first of two Vermont Interstate 91 bridge replacements, ...