Lying on both banks of the Mississippi River, Minneapolis has a plethora of bridges that carry a couple of hundreds of thousands of vehicles every day. One of them was the notorious I-35W ...
The cable-stayed bridge, set to be complete in late 2030, will include seismic-resistant design planned to withstand a 1,000-year seismic event with no damage. Conceptual rendering courtesy ...
Because the deck truss portion of the I-35W bridge was considered non-load-path-redundant, the total collapse of the deck truss was unavoidable once the gusset plates at the U10 nodes failed.