The Leaning Towers of Wilmington, Delaware: Emergency Response and Retrofit of the I-495 Viaduct to Address Lateral Squeeze
On a sunny, summer afternoon last June, the project manager for AECOM's open-end bridge design contract with the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) received an...
Calendar: Bridges 2014
Featured bridges include: Yaquina Bay Bridge, Newport, OR; Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Wheeling, WV; Ponte de Lima, Ponte de Lima, Portugal; Harvey Canal Bridge, Harvey, LA; Los Pinos...
Calendar: Bridges 2013
Featured bridges are: Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane, Australia; La Roche-sur-Yon Footbridge, La Roche-sur-Yon, France; I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge (MN); High Trestle Trail Bridge (IA); Glenfinnan...
Calendar: Bridges 2011
Featured bridges include: Ribblehead Viaduct, England; Sutong Bridge, China; Ponte Buriano, Italy; The Anaconda Bridge, Netherlands; Waldo-Hancock Bridges, Main; Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge,...
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: 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...
Design of Isolated Structures
This chapter examines the design of isolated structures. Topics include governing design codes; design of isolated buildings; design of isolated bridges and viaducts; and issues related...
Calendar: Bridges 2004
Featured bridges are: Linn Cove Viaduct (NC); Trepponti Bridge (Italy); Blue Water Bridge (Canada); Swing Bridge (England); Albert Bridge (UK); Broadway Bridge (FL); Alsea Bay Bridge (OR);...
Calendar: Bridges 2003 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Logan Mills Bridge (PA); Bayonne Bridge (NJ & NY); Puente de Alc�ntara (Spain); Hayden Bridge (OR); Bridge at Southharbourgate (Netherlands); Hanging Lake...
Transporting Hong Kong
In response to a mobile, rapidly growing population, Hong Kong's Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation is constructing West Rail, a HK$51.7 billion (U.S.$6.7 billion), 30.5 km...
Speeding Across Spain
Spain is extending its high-speed rail system�the Alta Velocidad Espa�ola (AVE)�to include a line running from Madrid to Lleida, with stops in Guadalajara and Zaragoza. The line will extend...
Tight Squeeze
The Newark, New Jersey Route 21 Viaduct Replacement is a massive, $250 million highway improvement program being undertaken by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Michael Baker...
Golden Gate Update
A comprehensive seismic retrofit is under way to ensure that San Francisco's 2.74-km-long Golden Gate Bridge will remain in operation even after a maximum credible earthquake...
Rebuilding a Railroad Bridge
The Peck Movable Bridge and Bridgeport Viaduct is a four-track crossing in Connecticut that serves three rail lines. The 1904 bridge had deteriorated, causing a kink that forced trains...
Bangkok Blockbuster
When completed, the 54-kilometer Bang Na-Bang Pli-Bang Pakong Expressway in Bangkok, Thailand, will be the longest elevated expressway in the world. The precast segmental method is being...
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...
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...
Rebuilding History
Deterioration of the second-oldest multiple-arch masonry viaduct in the country�in Canton, Mass.�threatened its ability to continue carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor trains,...
Cementing the Future
One of the most devastating effects of the Loma Prieta Earthquake that rocked northern California on Oct. 17, 1989 was the collapse of the elevated Cypress Freeway (Interstate 880) in...
A Bridge Along the Same Lines
Engineers in Tennessee were recently charged with building a new viaduct in an old profile, while at the same time keeping headroom for the trains and keeping off the neighbors'...
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