One notable recent instance where a long-span truss design was considered was the Columbia River Crossing, a joint effort by the states of Oregon and Washington to replace the pair of existing through ...

State transportation officials will hold two listening sessions on March 10 regarding their proposed recommendation for a composite truss bridge design. The first will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at ...

In This State is a syndicated weekly column about Vermont’s innovators, people, ideas and places. Details are at maplecornermedia.com. This week’s story is by Nancy Price Graff. For two years after ...

The final blast to remove the steel truss of the 76-year-old Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau will be held at 7 a.m. Wednesday, weather permitting, Missouri Department of Transportation ...

Of the 756 American bridges that share a design with the collapsed Minnesota span, almost a quarter stand in Ohio. They're not flashy, just roads atop trusses, a mishmash of connected steel sticks ...

A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the University of Vigo (UVigo) has just published in Nature the results of a study in which they have uncovered why bridges—specifically ...

Today, Black Bridge carries trains over the Codorus Creek as railroad traffic moves between York and Emigsville. This bridge is a prominent feature viewable from the new section of the rail trail, ...

Steel truss bridges are a common sight on roads and railways around the world, with many dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite their high strength-to-weight ratio, which ...

Seattle inspectors checked two steel-truss bridges after the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse, and Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday asked for a quick report on all of the state's 3,000 bridges. The ...

Truss bridges have a long pedigree. The first ones were made of wood and erected in various European countries at least as early as the 16th century. Beginning in the late 1700s, many of them were ...