Mix and Match
The U.S. Navy wanted to expand operations at Pearl Harbor, which required a bridge from Oahu to nearby Ford Island. The bridge spans more than 4,000 ft, and combines a fixed bridge and...
Balancing Act
The cable-stayed $69 million Glebe Island Bridge in Sydney was built using a combination of one rolling frame and one form traveler instead of a more orthodox two or four form traveler...
Record Spans in Japan
The Japanese bridge authority was tasked in 1970 with overseeing a vast project to link to two main islands of Honshu and Shikoku. The project, scheduled for completion in 2000, comprises...
Positively Not Pedestrian
An elaborate pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Eugene incorporates a number of innovative engineering features to create an aesthetically pleasing structure to complement the surrounding...
Putting Polystyrene to Work
Geofoam, the generic name for block or low density cellular plastic foam solids used in geotechnical applications, has low density and good insulation properties, which makes it well suited...
Shadow Tolls
As federal funding sources shrink, private sector involvement becomes more necessary for road projects. Private entities are reluctant to become partners in road projects unless there...
Czech It Out (Available only in Structural Engineering Special Issue)
Bridge and transportation engineers and architects combined on the design of a unique bridge in a small city in the Czech Republic. The cable-stayed bridge only has one tower which is...
Casting Hot and Cold
Contractors and engineers battled the Minnesota winter to build a concrete segmental bridge with form travelers. Superstructure segments were poured in temperatures as low as -19F, using...
Rapid Redecking
A contractor replaced nearly 7,000 m� of steel grid roadway deck filled with microsilica concrete on the Canadian crossing of the Thousand Islands bridge system more than one year ahead...
Losing Ground
Unusual engineering approaches, careful studies of earth and water movements, and a multi-organizational project team that worked cooperatively lead to the successful replacement of the...
Scheduled Departure
A busy, growing international airport constructs a new international terminal with upper and lower level access roads and expands its parking garage without interrupting services. The...
All Decked Out
After 50 years of wear, the deck of New York City's Williamsburg Bridge was buckling and badly in need of replacement. In 1994, consultants recommended replacing the deck...
Freeway to the Future
A new network model is emerging introducing a new step between servers and desktops: middleware servers with querying software. The new network architecture, combined with the use of both...
Paradise Crossed
Hawaii's Interstate H-3 project is the winner of the 1998 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award. The highway, built to alleviate commuter congestion and to link...
Traffic and Transportation Studies
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Climate Control
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has created its own customized weather information system to improve efficiency in its winter road maintenance operations. Intended...
Cable-Stay Conundrum
Wind- and rain-induced vibrations of cables on cable-stayed bridges are a relatively new phenomenon. While some observers report hearing about such vibrations ten or 12 years ago, typically...
Mitigation of Void Development under Bridge Approach Slabs Using Rubber Tire Chips
The problem of void development under bridge approach slabs has been correlated to the use of integral abutment bridges (Schaefer and Koch, 1992). This void development then causes settlement...
Tire Shreds as Lightweight Fill for Embankments and Retaining Walls
Use of tire shreds in three highway projects is described. In the first project, tire shreds were used as a compressible inclusion to reduce pressures on a rigid frame bridge. Earth pressures...
Launched Bridges
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