OAKLAND — How California handles the catastrophic failure of giant steel rods on the nearly finished Bay Bridge will help other states and countries avoid a similar and possibly fatal mistake, say ...

OAKLAND (CBS/AP) — Officials in charge of building a new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge repeatedly questioned the work and quality control of companies involved in making long ...

Any one of a dozen reasons could explain why huge high-strength steel rods — 9 to 24 feet long — on the new Bay Bridge snapped. But there are no excuses for allowing the fasteners to break in the ...

After dozens of seismic safety bolts on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge broke, tests on remaining bolts have so far shown no sign of failure.Toll Bridge Program Manager ...

The failure mechanism of resistance spot welds in dualphase steel lap-shear specimens is first investigated based on experimental observations. Optical micrographs of the cross sections of spot welds ...