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Arizona Department of Transportation Bridge Group: - Responsible for bridge design, construction assistance, and management. Includes guidelines, preservation program, structural detail cad drawings, and a gallery of bridges.

Balanced Cantilever Bridge Construction: - Discussion of construction method with a video animation.

Bridge and Structures Office - Washington State Department of Transport: - Provides a range of structural services required to provide safe, economical and reliable structures for the state's transportation system. Features projects, maps, and data.

Bridge Design and Assessment: - Workshop for bridge design and assessment codes and standards.

Bridge Engineering Forum at Eng-Tips: - Technical support and mutual help system for engineering professionals.

Bridge Research: Leading the Way to the Future: - Article that discusses the role and value of research in highway bridges.

BridgePros: - Offers an interactive experience in the engineering and construction of past, current and future bridge projects, including employment, news updates, and learning center.

The Bridges Project - London Borough of Barking and Dagenham: - Provides theoretical knowledge for students and teachers, with illustrations from places in both London's Docklands and the Netherlands.

The BridgeSite: - Resources for bridge engineers including engineering tools, discussion groups, and an industry events calendar.




Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering: - Serves as a resource for highway and railroad bridge owners in the United States and worldwide. Features researchers, projects, education, and news and events. At the University of Delaware.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: - Provides a range of technical data and case studies on arch, beam, cable-stayed, and suspension bridges.

How Stuff Works: Beam, Arch and Suspension Bridges: - Clear, concise explanations for various types of bridges with many illustrations and related links.

International Bridge Conference: - Arena for the bridge industry in North America, Europe and Asia. Includes registration, call for papers, bridge awards, and conference archives. Organized by the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania.

Load and Resistance Factor Design: - Technical support, information and news on the AASHTO LRFD bridge design specifications.

Mark Ketchum's Bridge Engineering Page: - Photos and descriptions of some bridge structures and some discussion of bridge engineering issues.

NOVA Online: Super Bridge: - Information about the four major types of bridges. Offers a knowledge test by matching each bridge to the correct location.

Office of Bridge Administration - U.S.Coast Guard: - Responsible for approval of the location and plans of bridges and causeways constructed across navigable waters of the United States. Provides bridge clearance and permit application guides.

Office of Bridge Technology - Federal Highway Association: - Provides a range of technical data on concrete and steel structures. Features publications, calendar of events, and related links.




Office of Structural Engineering - Ohio Department of Transport: - Includes bridge design manual, standard drawings, research, hydraulics, and covered bridges.

SC Solutions: - Bridge engineering resources. Links to government agencies, universities, publications and software.

To Build a Twisted Bridge: - Gives a topological study of how a Moebius band may adapted for bridge construction. Gives examples of some potentially usable designs for people and cars.

The West Point Bridge Design Contest: - Annual competition sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Includes free software download.