Not many bridges can take a direct hit from a 95,000-ton ship without crumbling, engineering experts agree. But they also say Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, if built today, might have stood a ...

During their first unit in the school’s Discovery Lab, John Lewis Childs School fifth graders are learning about bridges. Working in groups, the students create truss bridges out of connector strips.

Contractor Kraemer North American broke ground in October 2023 on a steel through truss bridge that will cross the Mississippi River. It’s the rare bridge construction project that doesn’t have ...

The Norwegian composite industry has once again made a significant international impact with the installation of the Paradis Bridge in Bergen—an impressive 42-metre-long truss bridge made from ...

Like a spider web that flexes to compensate for a broken strand 1, 2, steel truss bridges, which are built from a framework of connected elements, can sometimes withstand the failure of a load-bearing ...

It was a bridge project that went on without tying up traffic—and, in fact, without many people knowing: Yesterday, contractors moved two 13,000-pound wooden bridge trusses out of the structures lab ...