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The truck carrying a 134-foot concrete truss bridge beam was sitting on the tracks in Collegedale when the Norfolk Southern freight train began passing through, the Hamilton County Office of ...
The 1.2-mile bridge, which opened in May 1966, was deemed unsafe and immediately closed Friday following the discovery by a NJTA resident engineer of a fracture on a 14-inch truss beam on the ...
A truss bridge holds as long as the beams themselves don't break and the joints stay together. Most truss collapses are either traced back to a corner failing or a beam breaking. The famous 2007 ...
Any bridge would have collapsed if struck in a main support column, experts say, as the Francis Scott Key Bridge was by a loaded container ship. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...
A crack in one of two welded 24-in. x 32-in. continuous beams, each 900 ft in length, that form one of the bridge’s two tied-arch-truss navigation spans was discovered May 11 during a scheduled ...
Look at the Terrifying Cracked Beam That Shut Down the Vital I-40 Bridge Indefinitely A daily average of 35,000 vehicles will have to find another way around. By James Gilboy ...
The 75-tonne superbeam was installed as a temporary measure to strengthen the bridge before the steel modular truss, a less hefty alternative, could be put in this spring.
The location of the fracture in the beam of the I-40 bridge would be considered by engineers as an ideal spot for a fatigue fracture based on these two conditions – high stress on a small space ...
An update on the I-40 project said work crews have proceeded to strengthen the bridge since a crack in a steel support beam was discovered May 11.
SAINT CLAIR – It was as if it were 1894 all over again. Iron workers in overalls drove red-hot rivets into an iron beam of a historic bowstring iron truss bridge Tuesday morning, the same way it ...
It is extremely important to note that all six lanes of the Champlain Bridge will be completely closed to car traffic overnight from Friday to Saturday, from 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., in order to ...