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impacted society and other in the field of engineering. This will also include my personal opinion on each case study and what ethical issues I believe are involved in each case. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE COLLAPSE The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in Washington State in July of 1940. The suspension bridge was

concluded that bridge failures were due to several factors beyond human control that could not have been prevented, it appears that a careful examination of case studies suggest that the failures actually could have been prevented with a more efficient, reliable design. 1) Akesson, B. Understanding Bridge Collapses. London: Taylor & Francis, 2008. Print. The point of this book is to present the most popular cases that involve bridge failures. Every case included careful analysis of the bridge that had

The Veteran’s Skyway Gateway to the Trent Bridge In the early 1990s, the aging swing bridge crossing the Trent River in Trenton, Ontario was replaced with a continuous span steel box girder bridge. The unique part of this process was that the new bridge was built adjacent to the existing swing bridge and slid laterally into place; this was the first time in North America that this technique had been done. The process consisted of five mains steps; first, the planning of such an undertaking, second

What are bridges used for? They are used for the world to transport goods in railways and to support vehicles across landscapes and water. The Truss bridges have many different types which all triangular figures are put to use in the design of each bridge. Most bridges were made with these designs across the world around the 19th century, but today there are only a few left in America and most have been rebuilt. The most common types of Truss bridges are: Warren Truss, Pratt Truss, and Howe Truss

the leader of the construction of the first modern bridge in the world, according to Historic American Engineering Record(2008), the first modern bridge in the United States was built in 1 November 1855, and was named Gasconade Bridge, it was made out of Wooden Rail Bridge. Bridges are built all over the United States for different purposes but they are built to connect two parts of land together for transportation for instance, Hoover Dam Bridge, and others are built for commercial reasons and some

jumps to his death. Now jump to 2013. Nearly 1,600 people have committed suicide by jumping off. The average number of suicides from this landmark is three per month. The Golden Gate Bridge was an example of a feat of engineering. This spectacular bridge is 8,981 feet, or 1.7 miles, long. The total weight of the bridge is about 887,000 tons. The two towers stand 726 feet above the water and 500 feet above street level. They weigh

golden bridge working on the bridge. After all those deaths they later installed a net and many people were saved.There are many types of bridges like suspension,beam, truss and arch.So in this nonfiction essay you will know all about suspension,beam, truss and arch bridges. There are many types of bridges that are used for different things. This essay is about different bridges. A suspension bridge is usually a big bridge that stretches a long ways.The first model of a suspension bridge was built

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State had taken three years to complete its building process. It experienced a terrible fate as it collapsed only four months after final construction. During its short existence only vertical vibrations of the bridge were noticed, and the bridge became famously known as “Galloping Gertie” due to the swaying of the roadway under high wind conditions. A positive correlation was observed between the wind’s speeds and the bridge’s vibrations in certain tests,

engineering. Among this works, the bridges appears as the clearest representatives of how the mankind could adapt to Earth’s contours. If the shape of landscape can’t be changed, the bridges are the solution to link two places and allows the connection of the traffic to improve aspects such as the communication and the trade. Depending to the need, to the sources and to the environment, the bridge can be constructed in a specific configuration. There are five main sorts of bridges configurations. First, there

Spaghetti Bridge YelingYao Partner: Jay Physics class Mrs. Eckman August11,2015 Introduction: The bridge of sighs is This lab use spaghetti with the bridge to see how many pennies it can hold.There are interesting facts about bridges ,I also stated its tie to our lab. Thousands of tourists have crowded onto and around San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the iconic structure's 75th birthday.Crowds partied across its three-kilometer length, boats cruised on the water below and a finale