Rocks Village Bridge recently marked the 10-year anniversary of its six-span Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) vehicle deck. Creative Composites Group’s (CCG) FRP composite deck was installed in 2013 as ...
Cumberland County’s Hertzler Bridge opened Tuesday to traffic after being closed for repairs due to damage from a car crash in 2018. The historic steel truss bridge on Creek Road spans 216 feet and ...
Like a spider web that flexes to compensate for a broken strand 1, 2, steel truss bridges, which are built from a framework of connected elements, can sometimes withstand the failure of a load-bearing ...
I’m sure you’ve driven across or seen large steel truss bridges that are made by combining any number of huge steel beams into right triangles that interconnect. When viewed from the side they look ...
A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the University of Vigo (UVigo) has just published in Nature the results of a study in which they have uncovered why bridges—specifically ...
Pittsburgh’s top engineer said concerns about steel trusses spurred the closure this weekend of the Panther Hollow Bridge in Schenley Park. Eric Setzler, the city’s chief engineer, could not say when ...