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Liquefaction - http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~es10/fieldtripEarthQ/Damage1.html
Discussion of liquefaction caused by earthquakes and its effects on roads and bridges. Photographs of Watsonville brige in California, USA. |
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Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page - http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge. |
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Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters - http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/disaster/
Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof. |
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Walnut Street Bridge (Harrisburg) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Street_Bridge_(Harrisburg)
Information from Wikipedia on the collapse of a steel framed bridge in Pennsylvania in 1996, owing to scour and ice damage. |
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Speedway Bridge at North Carolina, USA - http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/2000_Speedway/
Lowe's speedway bridge collapse, 2000. Links to news articles about the collapse, owing to incorrect application of materials, of a concrete pedestrian walkway spanning a four-lane highway in North Carolina, USA. |
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A Bridge Collapse in Portugal Kills up to 70 People - http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/Portugal_Bridge/
Ponte de Ferro Bridge, 2001. Links to news articles about the collapse (owing to illegal sand extraction) of a concrete bridge over the Douro River in Portugal. |
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California's Temporary Freeway Bridge - http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall95/p95a2.htm
Arroyo Pasajero Twin Bridges, 1995. Collapse of motor bridge because of foundation scour. Temporarily replaced by innovative bridge made from surplus railroad flatcars. |
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Rush Street Bridges - http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300041.html
The Encyclopedia of Chicago provides an illustrated article on the collapse of an iron bridge in Chicago in 1863, and on the fate of other bridges built subsequently. |
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The Fall of a Bridge at Cornwall, Ontario. - http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/brcorn.Html
Long Sault Rapids Bridge, 1898. Collapse of steel framed rail bridge. Description of events and photographs. |
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Merrillan Bridge Collapse - http://www.greenbayroute.com/1968merrillanwreck.htm
Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage. |
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Awful Plunge - http://mypage.direct.ca/r/robinl/awfulplunge.html
Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896. |
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The Collapse of the Lance Mitan Suspension Bridge - http://www.tobago.org/trinidad/sbridge/lmsb1.htm
Chronicle of the 1998 collapse of a small suspension bridge in Trinidad, West Indies. Includes a history of the bridge, a summary of events, and before and after photographs. |
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Deficient Bridges - http://www.deficientbridges.com/
Lists bridges across the USA that are functionally obsolete or structurally deficient. |
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Maccabiah Bridge Collapse Blame Falls Far and Wide - http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6631/edition_id/124/format/html/displaystory.html
Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong. |
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Wood Bridge Failure Analysis - http://croberts.com/bridge.htm
Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs. |
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Point Ellice Bridge Disaster - http://collections.ic.gc.ca/peh/tour/gartour/bridge.htm
Short description of the collapse of wooden bridge on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1896, under weight of tramway car. |
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Br 169 Lancaster and Carlisle Line - http://www.dhaynes.freeserve.co.uk/fmrc/06_br169lc/06_br169lc.htm
Glanrhyd Bridge, 1987. Collapse of steel/masonry rail bridge in Wales, owing to scour. Summary of background and later preventative work to other bridge in Penrith, England, with map, photographs and drawings. |
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Rainbow Bridge Collapse, 1938 - http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Ko/cards/nf013.html
Photograph, from Vintageviews of New York, of this iron bridge after its collapse. |
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The Millennium Bridge - http://www.arup.com/millenniumbridge/
Discusses the foot bridge in London and the swaying that occurred in 2000 due to synchronous lateral excitation of steel cable foot bridge. Includes engineers drawings, public questions answered, solutions proposed, and photographs. |