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 ...

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 ...