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OAKLAND — Bay Area transportation officials grilled Caltrans on Wednesday morning for answers to why nearly three dozen threaded steel rods — 9 to 24 feet long — on the new eastern span of the Bay ...

Caltrans' pre-installation tests on the large steel rods that failed last month on the Bay Bridge project raised doubts about their ability to stretch during an earthquake, but engineers OKd using ...

Caltrans needs to examine hundreds of at-risk rods on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge and replace any that are hard enough to be vulnerable to cracking, says an internationally known expert who ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. Transportation officials are investigating why nearly three dozen threaded steel rods on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge snapped when workers tightened the ...

A Miami-Dade circuit judge wants to know how 26 threaded steel rods – similar, if not identical, to those installed in the collapsed FIU pedestrian bridge – were melted down after being removed from ...

Dongkuk Steel, a major steelmaker in Korea, said yesterday it has developed five types of threaded steel rods. Although the threaded steel rod market in Korea is small, the company said that demand ...

OAKLAND — Bay Area transportation officials grilled Caltrans on Wednesday morning for answers to why nearly three dozen threaded steel rods — 9 to 24 feet long — on the new eastern span of the Bay ...

Transportation officials are investigating why nearly three dozen threaded steel rods on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge snapped when workers tightened the fittings.The Contra Costa Times says ...