If you've followed The Oregonian's coverage of the $307.5 million Sellwood Bridge replacement project, chances are you've come across unfamiliar words as poetic-sounding as they are puzzling. Bent.

Crews working on the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge are well on their way to getting the first foundation anchored in the Narrows, engineers reported Tuesday. As of Tuesday evening, workers had attached ...

The new Narrows Bridge was built just 200 feet south of the existing bridge. Complex stratigraphy, diverse topography, fault-zones, landslide-prone slopes, contaminated soils and endangered species.

Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...

Construction of the Tacoma caisson of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge is five weeks behind schedule, according to a report released Monday by the state Department of Transportation. But bridge builders ...

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If you cross over the Sellwood Bridge in the next day, or pass within view of the construction zone where crews are working to build a new bridge, look down. Or, if you don't have the occasion to ...