Even if your roof trusses feel like a barrier to converting your loft, with the right structural changes you can still extend upwards and here's what's involved ...

New research explains how magnetic fields slow carbon diffusion in steel, revealing atomic-scale mechanisms that could improve heat treatment and alloy design. Credit: Stock Researchers have ...

Trusses are the skeleton of the roof. They set the pitch, carry loads from wind or snow, and shape any attic space. Because they come pre-engineered and are craned into place fast, they often keep ...

A mockup of the Hawthorne Crossing bridge. The truss design is cheaper than the originally planned single tower cable-stay design. Credit: ODOT/City of Bend Wake up seven days a week with the Cascades ...

Intolerable risk. That was what came to Todd Keller’s mind when Granite Construction looked at the design-build solicitation from the Federal Highway Administration in 2022 to rebuild a section of ...

Steel truss bridges are built by connecting many metal bars into a strong, load-bearing structure. But sometimes, if one part breaks, the damage spreads and causes the whole bridge to collapse. Other ...

A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the University of Vigo (UVigo) has just published in Nature the results of a study in which they have uncovered why bridges—specifically ...

Like a spider web that flexes to compensate for a broken strand 1, 2, steel truss bridges, which are built from a framework of connected elements, can sometimes withstand the failure of a load-bearing ...

The Bailey Bridge at Smith’s Crossing, a 118-year-old steel truss bridge spanning the Tittabawassee River south of Midland, is finally on its way to being restored after decades of closure. On Tuesday ...

A steel cable failure is believed to have caused the bridge to collapse on Aug. 22 At least 12 people died and four others remain missing after a bridge collapsed on Aug. 22 A portion of the bridge ...

Artist Constantine Sekeris has taken to Instagram to share a first look at some concept art for David Corenswet's Man of Steel from James Gunn's Superman movie. We assume this is the final design (or ...

A photo of the aftermath of the accident shows steel beams on the ground of a gymnasium being built in Potterville, Mich. Photo courtesy of the Benton Township Fire Dept. June 24, 2025 A 27-year-old ...