The Silver Bridge disaster

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How the Silver Bridge and the Hi-Carpenter Bridge differed from other suspension bridges in one crucial aspect.

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40 Comments

  1. It's after-the-fact engineering. Imagine the stress on the Golden Gate Bridge with 88 years of exposure to salt-laden air. They paint it continually to stave off corrosion but who really knows what the condition of those thousands of cables are inside?

  2. Roberto Clemente Bridge is an architectural marvel. It's iconic view from the right field grandstands of PNC Park is what makes it a permanent landmark. Also, the reason they call us the city of bridges isn't because of the amount of bridges in the region, but because of how we construct them.

  3. To this day occasionally form is thought to have some sort of genetic superiority so the rigorous testing and analysis get circumvented. What is the old adage about the king’s clothing? The weak links are discovered with disciplines called design failure modes and effects analysis, how crude a phrase for something created by an artist. My boss was asked to critique the body structure of a DeTemoso design. He found several weak links. Mr. DeTamaso told my boss to take the car home for the night and see if that changed his mind. The artist vs the engineer. The DeTamaso in a later form morphed into the GT40. Design analysis was a little more intense for a race car but still viewed as an limiting factor in design. Aerospace is about the only discipline that escaped the “form before function”. It’s difficult for an engineer to accept that important portions of his work (analytics) are viewed as “hindrances”.

  4. Real proud strong Americans back then. Now we have weak woke pathetic anti-patriotic people. This country won’t ever be the world leader with the current Biden/Kamala administration.

  5. Lololololololololol @ 2:39 A bolt? More like a strand of wire. Very misleading. The only would've been at least 2 inches in diameter but the graphic shows it being no more than 1/8th (roughly 3mm).

  6. I have examples of fretting due to corrosion on my desk as I watch this. The more modern components are made from tough steel and are completely worn out. The decades older parts are made from soft brass and are in perfect condition. Not saying to use softer metals but steel's tendency to fret should always be considered.

  7. What they don't mention is the National Bridge Safety Standards is sorely undermanned and unable to meet the demands for proper and periodic bridge inspections for over one million bridges nationwide.

  8. As I write this the date is September 8, 2021. Has anyone reading this heard of the structural problem with the Interstate 40 bridge into Memphis? The problem was that a horizontal steel beam fractured and had an easily visible opening. I haven't heard what they think caused the problem, but the bridge inspector was fired.

  9. I remember this. I was a 10 y/o kid living in West Virginia when the news bulletin interrupted whatever we were watching. It was surreal to watch especially knowing most people who were on the bridge were out Christmas shopping.

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