T.Y. Lin International (TYLI) is recognized as a global, multi-disciplinary engineering firm with profound knowledge in design and engineering of bridges. As one of the largest bridge design firms in the world, TYLI has proven that there are no challenges when it comes to building bridges, especially long-span bridges. Furthermore, TYLI provides construction engineering and planning, seismic analysis and retrofit, structural analysis and engineering for any kind of bridges including suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, segmental bridges, etc.
One of the most iconic bridge TYLI has been involved is the Weirton-Steubenville bridge in Ohio, USA. The Weirton-Steubenville bridge is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a single inverted Y-tower and I-shaped plate girders. TYLI provided engineering consultancy of the bridge by providing construction stage analysis and cable tension optimization of the bridge structure. Such complex analyses performed using the various features provided in midas Civil software. Furthermore, in addition to the 3D analysis of the bridge structure, detailed analysis for the anchor block was performed.