#bridge engineer

[pinkcat-engineer]

I passed!! I feel so great. After years of imposter syndrome. This can't be beat. I couldn't have tricked anyone, I didn't need to do anything different. I worked so hard and passed my professional engineering exam first try!! Its something that is so hard to say sometimes, but I'm so proud of myself!

[curiositymine]

Between 1893 and 1927, Percy Allan built 583 bridges in New South Wales. Five hundred and eighty three.

[caglaronbasi]

Bridge Engineering - The Bridge in Context  (2/3)

by ian firth 

[engineeringisawesome]

Structural steel in bridge design has one fatal flaw — bridges are usually over water, often over salt water, making failure through corrosion almost inevitable.

Even more frustrating, steel bridges usually corrode and weaken at the one place where inspection is costly and difficult, the gusset.

New York-based, HNTB Corp. national chief bridge engineer Ted Zoli had a better idea. Instead of doing what every engineer does and just focus on materials, he thought, why not focus on the design and try to eliminate some of the inevitable costs associated with bridge maintenance?

[engineeringisawesome]

The Michigan Department of Transportation for the first time will replace a bridge by building a new one next to the old one, then sliding it into place.

The “bridge slide” method is planned this year for a new, wider I-96 overpass on M-50/Alden Nash Avenue SE.