February, 2015 - Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering

Cable-Stayed Bridges Emerge as Preferred Option

Cable-Stayed Bridges Emerge as Preferred Option As the United States undertakes efforts to upgrade its ageing infrastructure, the cable-stayed methods fast becoming the preferred design option for new bridge construction. The cable-stayed method involves the use of cables suspended from one or more pylons to support the bridge deck. The design has a lengthy history, with…

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Can We Reverse-Engineer the Environment?

The Sanitary and Ship Canal was heralded as a triumph of that heroic age of American civil engineering in which technological progress and industrial might promised to deliver us from nature’s tyranny. If we could reverse the course of rivers, what couldn’t we bend to our will? In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers named…

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