The Interstate 35 bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis was a truss bridge, one of six main bridge types. Here's a quick look at the different types: A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected ...

Of the 756 American bridges that share a design with the collapsed Minnesota span, almost a quarter stand in Ohio. They're not flashy, just roads atop trusses, a mishmash of connected steel sticks ...

NEW BEDFORD — It was in the 1950s and '60s that engineers began to steer clear of truss bridges of the sort that collapsed in Minneapolis last week. But the mid-'60s was also the heyday of interstate ...

Truss bridges have a long pedigree. The first ones were made of wood and erected in various European countries at least as early as the 16th century. Beginning in the late 1700s, many of them were ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Two 13,000-pound trusses, resurrected from the charred ruins of a wooden bridge in New Hampshire, surely must be among the largest research specimens at Case Western Reserve ...

To most people, a bridge is simply an assembly that allows travelers to move safely across a river or gorge. But to Christina Terpeluk, a Johns Hopkins senior from Chestertown, Md., a bridge can be a ...