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 ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction task group, charged with considering model code changes in view of 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up steel plate girders of vehicle bridges in San ...

Go big or go home seems to be the state's unofficial rallying cry for the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Virtually everything about the $3.9 billion replacement crossing, from the engineering to the equipment ...

After much anticipation, the first batch of steel girders to be used in the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) has arrived at Chittagong Port. Considering the stipulated timeline for completion of ...

The fix is under way of the fractured twin plate girders that span 80 ft across Fremont Street in the 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, but a reopening date is not yet set, ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Seismic isolation systems. End cross frames. Buckling restrained braces (BRB). Base shear. Displacement. Abstract: The end ...