James B. Eads faced many obstacles when he built the first steel bridge in the world over the Mississippi River, none of which was more daunting than the sinking of the bridges' two piers and ...
A beam or "girder" bridge is the simplest and most inexpensive kind of bridge. According to Craig Finley of Finley/McNary Engineering, "they're basically the vanillas of the bridge world.
In 2017, during a routine assessment of the TH 41 Bridge 37D in Hartland, which traverses Route I- 91, bridge inspectors with the State of Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) observed areas ...