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Improving the Grade for America’s Structurally Deficient Bridges

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Dan Snyder

As the Samples Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at West Virginia University, Dr. Karl Barth knows a thing or two about giving and receiving grades. So when he sees a C+ assigned to the condition of bridges in the … Continue reading →

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A Short Span Steel Bridge Saves a Local Community

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Dan Snyder

According to the American Society for Civil Engineers, more than 26% (one in four) of the nation’s bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete (see http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/fact-sheet/bridges).  Over half of these bridges are in rural locations, and essential to the … Continue reading →

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