T he proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the area around ...

For each girder, the hanger plate is 18-in.-wide, 4-in.-thick and more than 10 ft long. The hanger is welded to the adjoining 1.5-in.-thick web plates by complete joint penetration (CJP) groove welds.

Design and behavior of plate girders; design of composite beam and column members; behavior and design of bolted and welded connections, including moment-resistant connections, seated connections, and ...

The steel plates, measuring approximately 5-feet by 14-feet, will be bolted one on top of the other on the south side of the girder to restore structural integrity to the girder and the bridge ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response. Distribution. High seismicity.

Economical use of high strength steels; behavior and design of bolted and welded moment resistant connections; design of plate girders and composite steel-concrete beams; brittle fracture and fatigue.