The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday, Nov. 14, announced that it has determined that the probable cause of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in ...

National Transportation Safety Board investigators said on Nov. 13 that the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others started when gusset plates on the upper side ...

Concerns shut down DeSoto Bridge. With the Interstate 35W bridge collapse of August 1 fresh on their minds, Minnesota Dept. of Transportation officials shut down a 51-year old continuous steel deck ...

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Investigators seeking the cause of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse are looking closely at steel plates that tied together beams in the center span of the structure, a state-hired consultant said ...

PORTSMOUTH — The new Memorial Bridge will be the first gussetless truss bridge in the world, the first to incorporate cold bending of steel, the first to tuck its machine rooms underneath the bridge.

A design error that caused inadequate steel plates to be used may have caused the collapse of the I-35W bridge into the Mississippi River last year in Minneapolis ...

Undersized steel reinforcing plates were singled out by federal officials Thursday as the main culprit in last year's deadly Minneapolis highway bridge collapse. While steel reinforcing plates, or ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board looking for the cause of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are focusing attention on a corroded gusset plate in the section of ...

"In yet still another aspect, a joint connection structure of a building framework generally comprises a column assembly including a column and a gusset plate assembly including a pair of gusset ...