Caltrans engineer Brian Maroney holds a section of a three-inch rod while providing an update on the tower anchor rod testing on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. on ...

Anchor rods in the tower of the Bay Bridge's new eastern span are not broken and 99 percent can withstand a major earthquake, Caltrans officials announced Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — Anchor rods in the tower of the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span are not broken and 99 percent can withstand a major earthquake, Caltrans officials announced Wednesday. The ...

Caltrans engineers display a three-inch rod which was found to be broken from the base of the SAS tower of the new Bay Bridge, during a news conference in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

RIDOT said the anchor rods date back to 1968, when the bridge first opened. An emergency inspection report from over the weekend included images of the damaged anchor rods, which hold the bridge ...

A broken anchor rod rises up next to still-tensioned rods on a shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013. Caltrans showed off the rods and some of the techniques they are using ...

Four anchor rods manufactured in 2010 and extracted from the new bridge are undergoing the special test designed to accelerate the effects of heavy loads and a marine environment, conditions that ...

SOURCE: Mike Luery/KCRA Advertisement Caltrans engineers test Bay Bridge anchor rods with salt water Rods will go through several weeks of testing Updated: 4:06 PM PDT Aug 2, 2013 Mike Luery Reporter ...

The anchor rods that hold in place strands of the main cable of the $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge have a new problem: They are skewed off-center inside holes of the steel plate to ...

Caltrans will spend $170,000 more to investigate the extent of tiny cracks in metal rods connecting the suspension span tower to its foundation on the new east span of the Bay Bridge. The latest ...

The bridge tower is secured by 424 massive anchor rods, each 25 feet long. Bridge officials reported last fall that about 95 percent of the rods had not been surrounded by grout, a cementlike ...

Four anchor rods manufactured in 2010 and extracted from the new bridge are undergoing the special test designed to accelerate the effects of heavy loads and a marine environment, conditions that ...