It was around 2:15 a.m. Monday and crews were installing the sixth of seven girders at the 102nd Avenue Bridge when the steel beams spanning across Groat Road began to bend before their eyes.

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 ...

Crews work to repair several steel girders that buckled under it's own weight during installation of a bridge along Groat Road in Edmonton, Alta., on Monday, March 16, 2015.

Simulations show how bridges are damaged during earthquakes, and how we can prevent it Detailed model highlights how important girder end design is for improving resilience Peer-Reviewed ...

Brian Krul, a project manager for TranSystems, said Wednesday that the multi-girder design was selected as the best option by 54% of residents living in the neighborhoods near the Kahkwa Bridge ...

Groat Road was closed to all traffic starting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, so work crews could spend the weekend lifting and placing the massive steel girders. The city originally planned to have the road ...

The Grist Mill Bridge, a 75-ft single span bridge in Hampden, Maine, is the first in the nation to use composite tub girders with no concrete reinforcement in the superstructure.

Associate professor Hussam Mahmoud and Susan Palu focused their analysis on about 80,000 “simply supported steel girder bridges,” a design common in the US since the mid 1940s, which consists ...

The 40-ton girders were part of a $32-million project that started a year ago. The girder depth is 4.2 meters at their ends, where they are encased on concrete abutments.