Keywords: Earthquake engineering, cable dynamics; nonlinear dynamics; flexible bus conductors; earthquake excitation; tensegrity; complementarity Abstract: The use of cables may be seen in different ...
History is taking root in rural Louisiana with construction of what will be the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere—and the only drilled-shaft supported bridge in the lower reaches ...
Cable-stayed bridges may look similar to suspension bridges—both have roadways that hang from cables and both have towers. But the two bridges support the load of the roadway in very different ways.
Bridge engineer Arvid Grant may have been feeling poetic on Sept. 8, 1978. Grant was typing up a fact sheet about the unusual cable-stayed bridge he’d designed. The completed bridge soared between ...
BALTIMORE — 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 ...