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Speedway Bridge at North Carolina, USA
· iweb · cached · 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.
Liquefaction
· cached · Discussion of liquefaction caused by earthquakes and its effects on roads and bridges. Photographs of Watsonville brige in California, USA.
The Millennium Bridge
· cached · Project and construction details of this pedestrian river crossing over the Thames. Features technical data, drawings, video, and photograph gallery.
Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page
· cached · Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.
Rainbow Bridge Collapse, 1938
· cached · Photograph, from Vintageviews of New York, of this iron bridge after its collapse.
Wood Bridge Failure Analysis
· Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs.
A Bridge Collapse in Portugal Kills up to 70 People
· iweb · cached · 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.
Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters
· cached · Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.
Merrillan Bridge Collapse
· iweb · cached · Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.
California's Temporary Freeway Bridge
· cached · Arroyo Pasajero Twin Bridges, 1995. Collapse of motor bridge because of foundation scour. Temporarily replaced by innovative bridge made from surplus railroad flatcars.
Br 169 Lancaster and Carlisle Line
· cached · 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.
Awful Plunge
· cached · Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896.
Point Ellice Bridge Disaster
· cached · Short description of the collapse of wooden bridge on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1896, under weight of tramway car.
Maccabiah Bridge Collapse Blame Falls Far and Wide
· iweb · cached · Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong.
The Fall of a Bridge at Cornwall, Ontario.
· iweb · cached · Long Sault Rapids Bridge, 1898. Collapse of steel framed rail bridge. Description of events and photographs.
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