Safety experts for decades have been recommending warning systems on bridges that will shut off traffic — or at least warn motorists — if there’s a threat of a collapse, keeping cars from plunging ...

After 104 years, the steel wheels that roll and engage weights on Portland’s Broadway Bridge are about to be history. The size and weight of the new wheels and their rails as well as the need to keep ...

When the I-35W Bridge collapsed in Minneapolis during the evening rush hour on Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 and injuring 145, the public learned what civil engineers have warned for decades: Bridges built ...

As one of the major projects in the first series of NEES research (NEESR) funded by the National Science Foundation, our study is addressing two important aspects of bridge seismic response, both ...