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 ...

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 ...

EDMONTON – An engineer says it could take weeks before the city can determine exactly what caused four steel girders at the 102nd Avenue Bridge to unexpectedly buckle. Carlos Cruz-Noguez, an assistant ...

The first steel girders, which are beams that support the deck for the new Grand Avenue traffic bridge, are scheduled to arrive in February and will span from the abutment in the Hot Springs Pool ...

Edmonton city officials are overseeing a review by a structural consultant on what caused four deep steel girders on a new bridge being built over a busy thoroughfare to buckle soon after their ...

Paul MacDonald walked over Monday afternoon to see the massive metal mystery everyone is talking about. "Seems incredible to me that they would bend," he said. "I mean, they're big, huge steel girders ...