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 ...

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 ...

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 ...