Structural Engineering

News items, membership details, newsletters, officers listing, and related links.

A listing of upcoming events, news items, contacts, members listing, and community section.

Upcoming events, related links, contacts, a newsletter, members directory, and bylaws.

Project investigating the possible effects of elevated temperature on the behavior of structural components partially damaged by direct blast. Conducted by students at the University of Edinburgh.

Provides a range of structural services required to provide safe, economical and reliable structures for the state's transportation system. Features projects, maps, and data.

Responsible for bridge design, construction assistance, and management. Includes guidelines, preservation program, structural detail cad drawings, and a gallery of bridges.

Addresses the protection of structural systems to earthquake hazards through the use of devices with controllable damping and stiffness properties.

Endeavors to integrate the discipline of structural control with the applications and specialties of civil engineering problems.

Supports research in the field of structural engineering related to earthquakes, especially the construction of buildings and infrastructure to withstand earthquakes. Lab reports available to all for download and links to related databases.

A technical society of the Australian Institution of Engineers presents its earthquake related activities.

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering.

Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.

Offers VBent, a bridge pier design and analysis program, capable of integral (monolithic) bents, using the AASHTO LRFD and Standard specifications.

Software for rapid limit state analysis of masonry arch bridges. Based on technology developed at the University of Sheffield, UK. Download a free trial copy.

Details the events and aftermath of this 1972 gob dam failure in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow.

Provides a range of data on the history and construction of the dam.

Markets earthquake protection dampers and shock protection units for buildings and bridges in the Indian sub-continent.

Journal article about scour and scour assessment in Pennsylvania, with diagrams and drawings.

Illustrated biographical essay.

Photographs and commentary on the old bridge and the construction of the new cable stay bridge.

A wide range of information about the construction and operation of the bridge, including history, administration, events listings and webcams.

Fund-raising site to restore the Slate Covered Bridge, burned by an arsonist in 1993. History, photographs, progress reports. Hosted by Cheshire County USA.

Hank Bickel gives photographs, descriptions, locations and historical facts on bridges in the states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

History and current data on this link between the United States and Canada. Also includes information on the prehistoric aboriginal discoveries adjacent to the bridge.

Review of Geoffrey Thornton's book. Includes a selection of bridge data and photographs including the Helmores Lane Bridge built in 1864, one of the oldest bridges still in use in New Zealand.

Biography with links to construction projects.

A detailed history of the two bridges spanning St Clair River between the Port Huron, United States and Point Edward, Canada. Paul Cret was consulted by the firm of Modjeski and Masters on the design of the first bridge in the 1930s.

Photographs and data of covered, arch, and steel bridges.

Historical data of this steel through-truss bridge across the Mississippi river. Includes facsimile of the original handbill with facts and diagrams, and a gallery of construction photographs.

Aims to save the 97-year-old Hojack Swing Bridge in Rochester, New York. News, images and related documents. Also a collection of illustrated articles about bridges worldwide.

About forty bridges in the state are illustrated and described.