You aren't logged in
Login
Register
|
Tensor Engineering was founded in 1958 by Walter J. Gatti. Since that time, Mr. Gatti and Tensor Engineering have played an integral part in the construction of most of the major steel structures built in the United States. Mr. Gatti, who brings over 56 years of knowledge and experience to his role as company president, has personally supervised the structural steel fabrication detail and field erection drawings for over 3,300 bridges. Included among those are a number of large, monumental structures, such as suspension bridges, large trusses, arches, cable-stayed, and continuous trapezoidal box girders, as well as large structural steel viaducts.
Over the years, Tensor Engineering has provided technological services for a number of notable projects. In 1983, Mr. Gatti served as the Project Manager for the structural steel detailing of the Greater New Orleans Bridge No. 2, one of the largest steel truss bridges ever constructed in the United States. Several years later, he managed and coordinated the structural steel detailing and mechanical system for the Burlington Northern lift span at Portland, Oregon. With a lift span truss spanning 600 feet, it is one of the largest vertical lift bridges in the country. In 1994, Mr. Gatti's supervision of the structural steel detailing for the Navajo Bridge over the Grand Canyon was featured on the cover of several prominent engineering journals. Tensor Engineering has completed or is working on the first suspension bridge in the United States in 35 years at Carquinez Straits in California, as well as all of the major cable-stay bridges in the United States. Recognized within the industry as a leading authority, Mr. Gatti currently serves as the chairman of the NSBA/AASHTO committee for the standard presentation of design drawings, detail drawings, approval processes and electronic data transfer.
Throughout its history, Tensor Engineering has remained a pioneer in the industry. In 1965, the firm was the first to utilize computers and develop programs for bridge geometry calculations. By 1972, Tensor's team had developed the original programs to calculate the flat pattern layouts for inclined trapezoidal box girders. Fourteen years later, in 1986, the firm once again raised the bar for technological innovation by integrating its software and producing computerized shop details as a by-product of its bridge geometry programs. This software package, produced and utilized exclusively by Tensor, automatically produces mill orders, camber diagrams, detail drawings and NC output. There are no other bridge detailing software packages in the world capable of duplicating these features. To start the new Millennium in February of 2000, Caltrans awarded a contract for the first new suspension bridge in the United States in over thirty years. An international team of expert suspension bridge builders selected Tensor Engineering to detail this monumental structure, providing a testament to the legendary spirit of creativity and ingenuity at Tensor Engineering.
|
|