Tapered plate girders are broadly used in structural engineering design as a great tool to provide improvement in stress distribution and efficiency in usage of material. Where the depth of such ...

EMH Crane’s new HSETC end trucks are designed with a girder connection plate on top of the end truck body. This configuration ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission's independent expert panel that reviewed the 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up plate girders at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center—and made ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction task group, charged with considering model code changes in view of 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up steel plate girders of vehicle bridges in San ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response ...

A deformation coordination method is proposed in this study to account for the distortion effects on a box girder. The differential equation for distortion in vertical web box girders is derived based ...