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  • Members: 295
  • Category: Civil
  • Founded: Jul 26, 1999
  • Language: English
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This group is for bridge enthusiasts. The bridge you drive across, NOT the card game. We talk about lots of bridges ("many spans"). Discussion about anything bridge-related is allowed. Feel free to talk about new bridges being built in your area, fond recollections of visits to bridges, bridges of yesteryear, bridge collectibles and artifacts, local bridge celebrations, railroad bridges, arches, cantilevers, suspension bridges, trusses, and all related civil engineering topics. You don't need to be an engineer to participate. Everything 'bridge' goes!

(keywords: abutment anchorage aqueduct arch beam Brooklyn cable cable-stayed caisson cantilever carquinez causeway chain chesapeake bay civil engineer clapper cofferdam colgante covered crossing Fink Firth Forth footbridge Fußgängerbrücke Golden Gate John Roebling Hängebrücke Howe Kinzua lattice Mackinac pont Pratt puente Queensboro span Steinman structure structures suspendu suspender suspension Tacoma Narrows truss Verrazano viaduct Warren wire)

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Another suspension footbridge collapse
Last October a VDOT suspension footbridge had collapsed with ten people on it. http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/210511 "The 160-foot-long bridge hung about
Posted - Mon Jul 6, 2009 1:27 am
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Re: Suspension footbridge collapse
I believe they were returning following watching fireworks. Apparently the bridge wasn't designed for the typical live load figure of being loaded with people
Posted - Sun Jul 5, 2009 8:58 pm
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Re: Suspension footbridge collapse
... 50+ people on that size bridge means it was severely overloaded. Let me guess...they were watching fireworks. --
Posted - Sun Jul 5, 2009 8:49 pm
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Re: Suspension footbridge collapse
Pictures / slide show here: http://nwitimes.com/packages/slideshows/070409bridgecollapse/ ... From: "Patrick S. O'Donnell" <1.991km@...> To:
Posted - Sun Jul 5, 2009 8:24 pm
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Suspension footbridge collapse
Suspension footbridge of "about 90 feet long" fails with dozens on it. Bridge is in NW Indiana and is not on David's inventory.  I wasn't aware of it until a
Posted - Sun Jul 5, 2009 8:20 pm
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