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billf:

--- Quote from: Level42 on August 02, 2007, 05:35:36 pm ---My posting #27 was a bit of a nasty sarcasm on posting #21.....

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--- Quote from: Level42 on August 02, 2007, 05:35:36 pm ---We went on the Ducktours in Boston last September, and I told my wife I was glad we went safely under some big bridge there, you didn't have to be an expert to know the situation of that bridge when you looked under it

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Are you a structural engineer? bridge technician? inspector?

billf:
Lots of interesting information in this article about the inspection of bridges in general.  Note the last two paragraphs in particular.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/bridge.structure/index.html#cnnSTCText

Samstag:
Of course now we'll rebound completely the other direction, as the state DOT's are basically being told to drop everything and inspect all their bridges more closely.

So expect something else to get neglected and cause the next catastrophe.

billf:

--- Quote from: Samstag on August 02, 2007, 11:33:43 pm ---Of course now we'll rebound completely the other direction, as the state DOT's are basically being told to drop everything and inspect all their bridges more closely.

So expect something else to get neglected and cause the next catastrophe.

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Yep.

shardian:
You can also expect to see more problems like this as the aging infrasrtucture of the U.S. starts failing. There are hundreds of bridges that are 30-40 years old that are in dire need of replacement - and not just backwoods bridges, I am talking Interstate highway bridges. They were designed with a significant safety factor originally, but the volume of traffic has increased so much that I'm sure there isn't much of that safety factor left. In the case of that bridge, from what I have heard of the condition there should have DEFINITELY been a revised weight limit/traffic limit put on it.

BTW, for a bridge that size it probably costs 1 million or more for an inspection.

I am deeply saddened for those that have died in the accident.

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