Workers prepare to lift a bridge girder with a crane on SR-247 at Little Bear Creek in Franklin County on Monday afternoon. (Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Transportation) A crane lowers a ...

The girders, ranging from 40 to 70 feet in length, are being welded together from flat steel and will be delivered in the order needed for assembly. Derek Clemons, president of Stupp Bridge ...

Abstract: Past earthquakes have shown that the considerable in-plane strength of most bridge superstructures is not always sufficient to prevent damage to components of steel plate girder ...