Tag: Bridges

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Civil Engineering Almanac – Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge opens

Reuben Hull's Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the week when the final link in the Baltimore Beltway is completed with the opening of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

New means of improving gusset plate design’s seismic performance

Gusset plates connect weight-bearing beams and girders to columns on bridges, buildings and other structures. To minimize failure of this important connection, the connections to the beam and column must be stronger than the braces themselves.

ASCE’s 2021 report card marks the nation’s infrastructure progress

The nation’s infrastructure received an overall cumulative grade of C-, according to ASCE’s recently released 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.

New Face ‘bridges the gaps’ – both literal and figurative

ASCE New Face of Civil Engineering Danielle Schroeder doesn’t simply work on bridges. She is the bridge.

University of California, San Diego shake table to be upgraded

The world’s largest high-performance outdoor shake table, a backbone of seismic studies, will be upgraded to move in six directions by October.

Slideshow: Winning cycle and pedestrian bridge design features restrained curves

The bridge in Heidelberg, Germany, will connect the city’s central train station with an express bike pathway on the opposite riverbank.

Three keys to taking a great bridge photo

Bridge engineer Danielle Schroeder offers three tips on what makes a great bridge photo.

Brent Spence Bridge, important conduit between Kentucky and Ohio, reopens

The bridge, which spans the Ohio River, was closed after a serious crash. The structure reopened a day ahead of schedule after a coordinated repair project.

Former NY/NJ Port Authority chief dies at 89; one of ASCE’s first OPAL winners

Eugene J. “Gene” Fasullo, whose long love affair with engineering led to his appointment as chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has died. He was 89.

Testing bridge structure vibration using a similarity model

The authors of new paper designed and manufactured a 32 meter simply supported box girder bridge model to study the vibration characteristics of bridge structures caused by rail transit