Bridge collapse

8/27/2016

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Gizmodo (Aug. 27) – In May 2013, a bridge spanning the Skagit River along Interstate 5 in Washington state catastrophically collapsed after an oversized trailer clipped one of the bridge’s cross beams. A new analysis by engineers at Illinois confirms the many factors that contributed to the collapse and offers recommendations for how to prevent similar failures in the future.


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This story was published August 27, 2016.