Wayne County will replace Apple Creek’s Bank Street bridge with a wider, safer box‑beam design featuring bike lanes and ...

The Delaware River Turnpike Bridge is closed indefinitely as workers continue efforts to stabilize the structure after a large crack was found in steel truss beam. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission ...

Quebecers were on the edge of their seats for “super beam weekend” in November. The Champlain Bridge was closed, as a giant beam was trucked on to Canada’s busiest span and fastened to a section where ...

I’m sure you’ve driven across or seen large steel truss bridges that are made by combining any number of huge steel beams into right triangles that interconnect. When viewed from the side they look ...

The idea of strengthening a steel beam with carbon fiber is not new. Approaches have ranged from coating corroded steel i-beams with carbon fiber and epoxy to a patent by Boeing where carbon fiber ...

Trusses are a fundamental tool in an engineer’s toolbox — a structurally simple way to transfer weight from one part of a roof to the walls or columns that are designed to withstand the effects of ...

THE SHORES OF TRADEPOINT ATLANTIC. WEATHER IS INTERFERING, AUTHORITIES SAY WIND AND WAVES ARE IMPACTING CREWS WORKING HIGH ABOVE THE SHIP. THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE IN NEW YORK IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW ...

Q. I'm getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I've been told that a wood beam will work, but I've always seen steel I-beams in other houses. Is it ...

— A framework of triangulated forms in which all loads are carried by compression or tension in each member of the frame. With apologies to the legacy of the late, great Professor Frank Brannigan, do ...