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Author | : United States. National Transportation Safety Board |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
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In the early afternoon, construction equipment and construction aggregates (sand and gravel for making concrete) were delivered and positioned in the two closed inside southbound lanes. The equipment and aggregates, which were being staged for a concrete pour of the southbound lanes that was to begin about 7:00 p.m., were positioned toward the south end of the center section of the deck truss portion of the bridge and were in place by about 2:30 p.m. About 6:05 p.m., a motion-activated surveillance video camera at the Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, just west of the I-35W bridge, recorded a portion of the collapse sequence. The video showed the bridge center span separating from the rest of the bridge and falling into the river.
Author | : National Trasportation Safety Services |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514695197 |
Download Highway Accident Report Collapse of I-35w Highway Bridge Minneapolis, Minnesota August 1, 2007 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
About 6:05 p.m. central daylight time on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, the eight-lane, 1,907-foot-long I-35W highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, experienced a catastrophic failure in the main span of the deck truss. As a result, 1,000 feet of the deck truss collapsed, with about 456 feet of the main span falling 108 feet into the 15-foot-deep river. A total of 111 vehicles were on the portion of the bridge that collapsed. Of these, 17 were recovered from the water. As a result of the bridge collapse, 13 people died, and 145 people were injured. On the day of the collapse, roadway work was underway on the I-35W bridge, and four of the eight travel lanes (two outside lanes northbound and two inside lanes southbound) were closed to traffic. In the early afternoon, construction equipment and construction aggregates (sand and gravel for making concrete) were delivered and positioned in the two closed inside southbound lanes.
Author | : Kimberly J. Brown |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612349773 |
Download The I-35W Bridge Collapse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Memoir & Creative Nonfiction “A bridge shouldn’t just fall down,” Senator Amy Klobuchar said after the August 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W eight-lane steel truss bridge, which killed 13 motorists, injured 145, and left a collective wound on the city’s psyche and infrastructure. On her way to a soccer game with a fellow teammate, Kimberly J. Brown experienced the collapse firsthand, falling 114 feet in her teammate’s car to the Mississippi River. Although terrified, injured, and in shock, she survived. In this sobering memoir and exposé, Brown recounts her harrowing experience. In the aftermath of the disaster, Brown became both an advocate for survivors and an unofficial whistle-blower about decaying infrastructure. She details her investigation and correspondence with Thornton Tomasetti engineers, including the false official account of the collapse and the eventual revelation of its real causes. In addition, she chronicles the ongoing decay of America’s bridges and the continuing challenges faced by leaders to address infrastructure problems across the country. After nearly a decade of research into the collapse and her active and ongoing recovery from psychic and physical injuries, Brown shares her experience and answers the questions we should all be asking: Why did this bridge collapse? And what could have been done to prevent this tragedy?
Author | : United States. National Transportation Safety Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Bridge failures |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hollis Stambaugh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Accident investigation |
ISBN | : |
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Examines the emergency preparedness for and response to the August 1, 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota that killed 13 people and injured 121 others.
Author | : Wolfgang Seibel |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2022-01-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030678180 |
Download Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. This book analyses four relevant cases from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Germany. Arguing that, while preventing disaster through public oversight is essentially easy, the difficult part for public officials and private contractors and consultants alike is to resist incentives that threaten professional skills and standards. Rather than stressing well-known pathologies of bureaucracy as a potential source of disaster, this book argues, learning for the sake of prevention should aim at neutralizing threats to integrity and strengthening a sense of responsibility among public officials.
Author | : Glen Legus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Bridge failures |
ISBN | : 9780615235929 |
Download Bridges Don't Fall Down Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Patrick Nunnally |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816667667 |
Download The City, the River, the Bridge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring the university's role in understanding how disasters impact communities.
Author | : Parag C. Das |
Publisher | : Thomas Telford |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780727725912 |
Download Safety of Bridges Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discusses "the safety concepts which form the basis of modern bridge design and assessment codes" and "the background work carried out in the development of the new UK bridge and route-specific traffic loading requirements, and the proposed whole life performance-based assessment rules" -- Preface.
Author | : Khaled Mahmoud |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781135172374 |
Download Safety and Reliability of Bridge Structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent surveys of the U.S. infrastructure’s condition have rated a staggering number of bridges structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While not necessarily unsafe, a structurally deficient bridge must be posted for weight and have limits for speed, due to its deteriorated structural components. Bridges with old design features that cannot safely accommodate current traffic volumes, and vehicle sizes and weights are classified as functionally obsolete. Such deficiencies may adversely affect the performance of transportation systems in emergency situations or for disaster response. This narrative has become part of the public debate sparked by the collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on August 1, 2007. Ever since, numerous technical and news articles have been written to answer the persistent question, why did the bridge collapse? Exhaustive examination of the details of a specific bridge failure, typically, reveals the reasons for the collapse and lessons are drawn from the experience. Each bridge failure, since the Tacoma Narrows Bride disaster in 1940, has served as a wakeup call for the bridge engineering community, initiating radical changes in the design and construction standards. However, a paradigm shift is necessary in the inspection and monitoring practices of the bridge engineering community to provide preventive maintenance and restore the public’s confidence in the safety of bridges. Concerns about bridge safety and reliability go beyond geographical boundaries and are shared by bridge engineers from different countries. This book contains a number of selected papers that were presented at the Fifth New York City Bridge Conference, held on August 17-18, 2009. These papers cover a wide range of topics in the design, construction, maintenance, monitoring and rehabilitation of bridge structures.