Metro Reconstructed bridge trusses from 1918 New Hampshire span to spend at least a year at Case Western Reserve University Updated: Aug. 11, 2012, 7:05 p.m. | Published: Aug. 11, 2012, 6:05 p.m.

Corrections and clarifications: This story has been corrected to describe the pedestrian bridge as a truss design, despite its cosmetic appearance as a cable-stayed bridge. The central column and ...

State transportation officials will hold two listening sessions on March 10 regarding their proposed recommendation for a composite truss bridge design. The first will be held from noon to 2 p.m ...

Those angled, vertical support pieces were designed to tie the bottom pedestrian deck of the bridge to a canopy that ran along the top in what’s known as a truss design. In through-truss bridges ...

NEW BEDFORD — It was in the 1950s and '60s that engineers began to steer clear of truss bridges of the sort that collapsed in Minneapolis last week.

The American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel Corp. built the bridge’s steel superstructure, and the truss segments were fabricated in Vancouver, Wash., 145 km upriver, then barged downstream and ...

The bridge had been weakened by structural fatigue over many years, authorities said, due to the design miscalculations on the gusset plates, which held together beam trusses.

The bridge is significant because Whipple (1801-1888), an 1830 Union College graduate, is recognized worldwide as the person who first correctly analyzed the stresses in a truss and put those ...

Visit the Fleming County Covered Bridge Museum, examine the truss designs of the remaining bridges, and take a photo tour of each bridge. A 2012 KET production.

The 1,100-foot Skagit River bridge in Washington state had an average rating for structural integrity. But experts say the design of the 58-year-old bridge is rarely used in new crossings, in part ...

The structure was a variant of a truss bridge design, usually made of steel. But FIU’s consultants, MCN and FIGG, instead chose heavy concrete, which has several advantages.

Now an engineering team at Brigham Young University have shrunk the truss system from 5 to 18 in. in diameter to just 1 in. in diameter to use as a bike frame.