Composite Advantage has found commercial success with composite bridges, as shown here. Yet many bridges built with composites from 1998 to 2004 under the Federal Highway Administration's Innovative ...

When the district Department of Transportation (DDOT) in Washington, D.C., needed to replace three aging bridges over the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal in Georgetown, plastic crossed the minds of engineers ...

Wayne County will replace Apple Creek’s Bank Street bridge with a wider, safer box‑beam design featuring bike lanes and ...

AIT Bridges has launched a composite “tub girder,” a U-shaped beam the company says is lighter, lower-cost and longer-lasting than typical concrete and steel girders. COURTESY / AIT BRIDGES AIT ...

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center successfully tested a rapidly deployable bridge system using composite girders and precast concrete deck panels. The bridge system ...

More than 25 percent of all highway bridges in the U.S. are considered deficient today, unable to handle traffic loads and meet basic safety standards. The biggest contributor to bridge deterioration ...

Replace the 535-foot-long timber Knickerbocker Bridge with a material that could withstand close tidal waters and the harsh marine environment. The 32-foot-wide, eight-span, 540-foot long ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has contracted Axion International for the installation of a thermoplastic composite bridge at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. New Jersey-based Axion ...

Recently, Chongqing City government decided to apply those soft bridge anti-collision device in 5 bridges within the city’s jurisdiction as well as the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. According to ...

The Norwegian composite industry has once again made a significant international impact with the installation of the Paradis Bridge in Bergen—an impressive 42-metre-long truss bridge made from ...

In an earthquake, a bridge is designed to take the brunt of the damage at the top and bottom of the vertical columns where they meet the foundation and the horizontal beams. If a bridge survives from ...