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Speedway Bridge at North Carolina, USA
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.
http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/2000_Speedway/
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Liquefaction
Discussion of liquefaction caused by earthquakes and its effects on roads and bridges. Photographs of Watsonville brige in California, USA.
http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~es10/fieldtripEarthQ/Damage1.html
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The Millennium Bridge
Discusses the foot bridge in London and the swaying that occurred in 2000 due to synchronous lateral excitation of steel cable foot bridge. Includes engineers drawings, public questions answered, solutions proposed, and photographs.
http://www.arup.com/MillenniumBridge/
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Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page
Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.
http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
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Rainbow Bridge Collapse, 1938
Photograph, from Vintageviews of New York, of this iron bridge after its collapse.
http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Ko/cards/nf013.html
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A Bridge Collapse in Portugal Kills up to 70 People
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.
http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/Portugal_Bridge/
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Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters
Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.
http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/disaster/
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Merrillan Bridge Collapse
Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.
http://www.greenbayroute.com/1968merrillanwreck.htm
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California's Temporary Freeway Bridge
Arroyo Pasajero Twin Bridges, 1995. Collapse of motor bridge because of foundation scour. Temporarily replaced by innovative bridge made from surplus railroad flatcars.
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall95/p95a2.htm
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Br 169 Lancaster and Carlisle Line
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.
http://www.dhaynes.freeserve.co.uk/fmrc/06_br169lc/06_br169lc.htm
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