Cable-stayed bridges play a critical role in modern infrastructure by merging aesthetic appeal with engineering efficiency. Their design and optimisation involve a delicate balance of cable force ...
When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...
Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a ...
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 ...
Mumbai/Lonavala: Standing at a height of 182 metres from the ground—the equivalent of a 60-storey building—the cable-stayed bridge in a deep valley on the Mumbai-Pune expressway is an engineering ...
Tower cranes rising more than 320 ft above a valley floor in Germany are being used to build a multi-span cable-stayed bridge that will relieve the small town of Horb am Neckar of heavy through ...
China's recently inaugurated Chantai Yangtze River Bridge, with a 1,208-m-long main span that secures it the title of world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, came with its share of engineering challenges ...
Burnside Bridge, which is nearly 100 years old, is set to undergo a five-year seismic rebuild, likely beginning in 2027. It’s a major travel route as the only bridge in Portland that touches all four ...