Medicine Buffalo

Bridge Foundations: Modeling Large Pile Groups and Caissons for Seismic Design

Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Design Guidelines for Increasing the Lateral Resistance of Highway-Bridge Pile Foundations by Improving Weak Soils

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Medicine Buffalo

Experimental Investigation and Retrofit of Steel Pile Foundations and Pile Bents Under Cyclic Lateral Loadings

Keywords: Seismic performances. Pile-to-cap connections. Steel pile foundations. Steel pile bents. Fatigue life models. Bridges. Abstract: This research investigated the performance and retrofit of ...

Final cost negotiations on Key Bridge rebuild set to begin amid rising estimates

BALTIMORE — Negotiations on the final cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge are expected to begin within weeks as Maryland officials continue advancing design and early construction work, ...
ucdavis.edu

Investigating Bridges Under Pressure

UC Davis researchers have created a dataset for understanding how bridges, bridge pilings and the soil beneath them respond when earthquake shaking causes soils to liquefy. (Getty Images) Can a bridge ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Researchers discover solutions to build stronger bridges

Aging infrastructure is a major issue in the U.S. with nearly 50 percent of bridges considered in poor condition—nearly 12 percent are over 80 years old; 42 percent are over 50. Many have high volumes ...