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 ...

TARRYTOWN - On a foggy Friday afternoon on the Hudson River, crews secured yet another chunk of blue steel to the concrete pillars that will eventually hold up the road on the new Tappan Zee 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 ...