State transportation officials will hold two listening sessions on March 10 regarding their proposed recommendation for a composite truss bridge design. The first will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at ...

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A crew will be making measurements on a historic Shreveport bridge in preparation for design and rehab work. "This is one of two remaining versions of this bridge in the ...

Of the 756 American bridges that share a design with the collapsed Minnesota span, almost a quarter stand in Ohio. They're not flashy, just roads atop trusses, a mishmash of connected steel sticks ...

The truss bridges are described as non-redundant, meaning that if one component fails, the bridge will likely collapse. They were commonly built more than 40 years ago to span distances of 300 to 800 ...

NEW BEDFORD — It was in the 1950s and '60s that engineers began to steer clear of truss bridges of the sort that collapsed in Minneapolis last week. But the mid-'60s was also the heyday of interstate ...

MAZEPPA — The new Wabasha County Road 7 bridge across the Zumbro River has a sleek simplicity to it, it's safe, it exudes modern efficiency. I wish I could hate it. For one thing, it's not green and ...

In This State is a syndicated weekly column about Vermont’s innovators, people, ideas and places. Details are at maplecornermedia.com. This week’s story is by Nancy Price Graff. For two years after ...

One notable recent instance where a long-span truss design was considered was the Columbia River Crossing, a joint effort by the states of Oregon and Washington to replace the pair of existing through ...

Crossing the North Bosque River bridge at Clifton City Park can be a white-knuckle experience for the uninitiated. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports the wood-and-asphalt decking creaks, the rusted truss ...

A WisDOT official has said that the electronic monitoring of 14 deck-truss bridges in Wisconsin has shown they are safe and functioning as WisDOT expected. After the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In April 1993, Parks Canada undertook to record and study a rather curious bridge—the Turcot Bridge, a double-intersection riveted metal truss ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Photograph shows eight men ...