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 ...
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 ...
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 ...