A deck section on a 26-year-old tied-arch Beijing bridge collapsed into the Chaobai River April 23, when tie rods hanging from an arch to one side of the deck failed, Chinese agencies and news ...

The bridge was designed in homage to Robert Maillart’s 1933 Schwandbach Bridge near Bern, Switzerland, which is a curved, deck-stiffened reinforced concrete arch bridge. Over the years, sbp has ...

"I knew it was time for Columbus to move into the next century with this bridge. It was exciting just looking at it." ...

Instead of pushing straight down, the weight of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the supports at each end. These supports, called the abutments, carry the load and ...

Maria bridge is the first of its kind — both locally and internationally due to its non-typical arch support scheme which involved a suspended deck system,” said Bonoan. “Unfortunately ...