When the Norwegian Public Roads Administration asked the design-build team of Sweco, PNC, Armando Rito Engenharia and Isachsen to deliver a 643-meter-long concrete box-girder bridge completely in 3D, ...
Bentley Systems, Inc. announced a strategic initiative to deliver Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM) technology for the entire bridge life cycle. BrIM will be a new business unit under Bentley’s ...
...communication tool. Brady Nadell, PB’s Doyle Drive project manager, says Caltrans requested PB and its joint venture partner, Arup, design using BIM early in design. Caltrans is engineering the new ...
Bridges form a critical category of the U.S. transportation infrastructure, yet the current structural condition is only evaluated at “C+” according to the 2017 ASCE Infrastructure Report Card. In ...
Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had just opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. In a now infamous failure, in the face of moderate winds the ...
Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...