Impact on New Design
This chapter briefly discusses potential changes in bridge design following Hurricane Katrina....
The New Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge Introductory Project Information
On September 25, 2002, Notice-to-Proceed for a design-build agreement was issued by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), directing Tacoma Narrows Constructors (TNC),...
BP Bridge at Millennium Park, Chicago
The structural engineering design and constructive aspects of a unique stainless steel-clad pedestrian crossing at the Millennium Park in Chicago are presented. The overall bridge form...
On the Inelastic Design of Steel I Girder Bridges
This paper documents the development of a relatively easy to use set of effective plastic moment expressions and compares the performance of these equations with a series of experimental...
Calendar: 1991 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Smith Avenue High Bridge (MN); Waterville Bridge (PA); Redwood Falls Bridge (MN); Atlantic Beach/Morehead City Bridge (NC); Stokes County Bridge No. 197 (NC); Walter...
Calendar: 1990 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Bixby Creek Bridge (CA); Bridge 28 (NY); Hell Gate Bridge (NY); Tioronda Bridge (NY); Bellows Falls Bridge (NH); Laughery Creek Bridge (IN); Wilson Bridge (MD); Alsea...
Calendar: 1989 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Sunshine Skyway Bridge (FL); Forth Bridge (Scotland); High Bridge (KY); Eugene A, Doran Memorial Bridge (CA); Verrazono-Narrows Bridge (NY); Garabit Viaduct (France);...
Calendar: A 1984 Calendar Illustrating National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
Featured landmarks are: John A. Riebkubg Bridge (KY & OH); A Hydraulic Powered Inclined Plane of the Morris Canal; Buffalo Bill Dam (WY); The Philadelphia Municipal Water Supple...
Calendar: A 1982 Calendar Illustrating National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
Featured landmarks are: The Erie Canal (NY); High Bridge (NY); The Joining of the Rails if the First Transcontinental Railroad (UT); Mormon Tabernacle (UT); Theodore Roosevelt Dam and...
Calendar: A Calendar Illustrating Bridges, Aqueducts and Viaducts Designated National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks (1981)
Featured landmarks are: Eads Bridge (MO); Tunkhannock Viaduct (PA); Bridgeport Covered Bridge (CA); Bollman Truss Bridge (MD); The Mississippi River Bridge of the Great Northern Railroad...
Calendar: 1988 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Golden Gate Bridge (CA); Tunkhannock Viaduct (PA); Riverside Avenue Bridge (CT); Bridgeport Covered Bridge (CA); Smithfield Street Bridge (PA); Mid-Hudson Bridge...
Calendar: Bridges 2006
Featured bridges are: Rion-Antirion Bridge (Greece); Menai Straits Bridge (UK); Firth of Forth Bridge (UK); Fred Hartman Bridge (TX); Kintaikyo Bridge (Japan); Arlington Memorial Bridge...
San Simeon Earthquake of December 22, 2003 and Denali, Alaska, Earthquake of November 3, 2002
Prepared by the Earthquake Investigations Committee of the Technical Council of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph provides...
Rescue Mission
Designers in France applied modern engineering techniques in a way that made it possible to preserve the appearance of a beloved bridge....
Crossing the Hollandsch Diep
The design/build team charged with creating an aesthetically pleasing bridge in the Netherlands for high-speed rail faced tough requirements, among them tight construction tolerances and...
Tying It All Together
The Rancocas Greek Bridge, a steel tied arch designed for both light-rail and freight train loading, may be the first bridge of its kind to carry freight trains in the United States....
Repairing Pittsburgh's Portal
Engineering the rehabilitation of Pittsburgh's Fort Pitt Bridge and Fort Pitt Tunnel involved an extensive inspection of their condition and a detailed evaluation of alternative...
Life-Cycle Environmental Accounting and Decision-Making for Bridge Structures
This presentation focuses on life-cycle environmental accounting and decision-making for bridge structures using the example of steel and steel-reinforced concrete....
Poetic Crossing
Named for Georgia's first national poet, Sidney Clopton Lanier, the new Sidney Lanier Bridge, spanning the Brunswick River in the city of Brunswick, is an elegant structure...
Northern Exposure
Traffic growth on a Massachusetts highway leading to New Hampshire called for new lanes and replacement of all of the bridges. Wide medians aided the work; narrow ones complicated matters....
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