In their competing accounts of what went wrong before last year’s Florida pedestrian bridge collapse, both the contractor and designer agree on one point: The concrete was never “roughened” at ...

One of the first to explore the artistic potential of reinforced concrete was Swiss engineer Robert Maillart (1872–1940), who in 1947 was the subject of a Museum of Modern Art exhibition celebrating ...

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Completed in 2019, the concrete structure is part of a pedestrian trail from the village to the nearby cemetery. In fact, architects based their approach on a spiritual concept, imagining, therefore, ...

Keywords: Accelerated bridge construction (ABC). Precast concrete. Segmental bridges. Seismic design. Shaking table tests. Vertical loads. Two-dimensional (2D) models. Nonlinear dynamic analyses.

Since the implementation of the bridge rail guidance provided in AASHTO LRFD BDS Section 13 (AASHTO 2017), the landscape of roadside safety hardware testing, evaluation, and design has changed ...

Use modern methods to analyze and design bridges. Upgrade your technical skills to meet the specialized needs of the structural bridge design industry. Apply advanced techniques to evaluate the design ...

The Florida Department of Transportation in 2017 had a dream: for $802 million, South Florida would by now have a smoothly ...