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Bridge Collapses After Just 10 Years Because Designers Were Too Focused On Looks

It's a tough time to be a bridge designer right now, with a span in Baltimore collapsing after a ship crashed into it and New York's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge coming dangerously close to a similar fate ...
The Providence Journal

Bridge designer shows a path to rebuild it. Here's his plan | Opinion

Laszlo Siegmund, a retired engineer involved in the original Washington Bridge design, proposes a 7-step plan to reduce costs and expedite the current replacement project. The plan focuses on halting ...
Construction Equipment

OSHA Finds Fault With Bridge Designer Following FIU Bridge Collapse

A new report from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding last year's collapse of the FIU pedestrian bridge in Miami places considerable blame on ...
CNN

MIT engineers tested Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design. Here’s how it held up

In 1502, Leonardo da Vinci sketched out a design for what would have been the world’s longest bridge at the time – 280 meters (918.6 feet). Although the bridge itself was never built, engineers at the ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Bridge Railing Design Requirements

Since the implementation of the bridge rail guidance provided in AASHTO LRFD BDS Section 13 (AASHTO 2017), the landscape of roadside safety hardware testing, evaluation, and design has changed ...