Directory of Failures Resources

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• Ashtabula River
• Firth of Tay
• Hoan Bridge
• Minneapolis
• Point Pleasant
• Saint Lawrence River
• Schoharie Creek
• Scour
• Tacoma Narrows

Resources in This Category

• Awful Plunge

  http://mypage.direct.ca/r/robinl/awfulplunge.html
  Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896.

• California's Temporary Freeway Bridge

  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/.../pavements/.../publicroads/95fall/p95au2.cfm
  Arroyo Pasajero Twin Bridges, 1995. Collapse of motor bridge because of foundation scour. Temporarily replaced by innovative bridge made from surplus railroad flatcars.

• Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters

  http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/disaster/
  Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.

• Maccabiah Bridge Collapse Blame Falls Far and Wide

  http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/6211/maccabiah-bridge-collapse-blame-falls-far-and-wide/
  Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong.

• Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page

  http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
  Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.

• Merrillan Bridge Collapse

  http://www.greenbayroute.com/1968merrillanwreck.htm
  Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.

• Rush Street Bridges

  http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300041.html
  The Encyclopedia of Chicago provides an illustrated article on the collapse of an iron bridge in Chicago in 1863, and on the fate of other bridges built subsequently.

• The Collapse of the Lance Mitan Suspension Bridge

  http://www.seetobago.org/trinidad/sbridge/lmsb1.htm
  Chronicle of the 1998 collapse of a small suspension bridge in Trinidad, West Indies. Includes a history of the bridge, a summary of events, and before and after photographs.

• The Fall of a Bridge at Cornwall, Ontario.

  http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/brcorn.Html
  Long Sault Rapids Bridge, 1898. Collapse of steel framed rail bridge. Description of events and photographs.

• Walnut Street Bridge (Harrisburg)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Street_Bridge_(Harrisburg)
  Information from Wikipedia on the collapse of a steel framed bridge in Pennsylvania in 1996, owing to scour and ice damage.

• Wood Bridge Failure Analysis

  http://croberts.com/bridge.htm
  Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs.

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