Worldwide, there are at least 175 vehicular bridges and 160 pedestrian bridges in service today that incorporate composites. That's a fair number, considering that 10 years ago, there were about a ...

Composite Bridge Girder Exceeds Twice the Strength of Steel and Concrete Girders that weigh only 2 tons and precast deck panels easily can be erected over 80-ft. in 72 hours to carry five times ...

Composite decks, first used for U.S. bridge construction during the early 1990s, addressed some of these issues. Made with lightweight, corrosion-resistant materials, they increased carrying capacity ...

Their research shows that building bridges and roads out of composite materials instead of steel and concrete saves money in the long-term and lasts longer. The composite materials are made of ...

It doesn’t look much different from California’s other arroyo crossings, but peek under the deck of the Kings Stormwater Channel Bridge on Route 86 in Riverside County and you’ll find ...

The world's first twin-tower cable-stayed steel composite bridge opened to traffic Sunday in Beijing, which is on the extension line of Chang'an Avenue, an east-west artery in downtown Beijing.

A Glenpool steel company used its patented technology to install a 30-foot bridge in a single day Friday in Sapulpa. The new span replaced a recently condemned bridge on 33rd West Avenue and 76th ...

The Bailey bridge, built in 1985 with a carrying capacity of 20 metric tonnes (MT), was supposed to be replaced with a steel composite bridge with 70MT. A Department of Roads (DoR) official said the ...