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 below a ...

Tower cranes rising more than 320 ft above a valley floor in Germany are being used to build a multi-span cable-stayed bridge that will relieve the small town of Horb am Neckar of heavy through ...

...Stonecutters Bridge. Some 7,000 tonnes of parallel wire strand in 224 cables will support that bridge s main span and both sets of four backspans, each stretching for 289 m. Locked coil cables were ...

When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...

The cable-stayed bridge, like the suspension bridge, supports the roadway with massive steel cables, but in a different way. The cables run directly from the roadway up to a tower, forming a unique "A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What could be better? Uladzik Kryhin via Shutterstock.com. Ever since the Golden Gate Bridge opened to traffic on May 27, 1937, it ...

Bridges are becoming safer, more durable, and longer than ever before. Bridges haven’t really changed much for many years, says Anil Agrawal, a professor of civil engineering at the City College of ...

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 ...