Tacoma Narrows Bridge

they 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

through the myriad bridge collapses we have had in the last 100 years. California is rife with earthquakes and they have caused many different bridges, such as the Antelope Valley Freeway Interchange or the Cypress Viaduct to collapse. Landslides and floods have also caused many different bridges to fall including the John Day River Bridge, the Tex Wash Bridge, and the Pfeiffer Bridge. Natural disasters are not the only thing that can take down a bridge; in fact, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the Skagit River

in designing long suspension bridges to America. His famous bridges included Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that presents over New York harbor. Verrazano-Narrows Bridge considered as longest single span bridge in the world. He also has great contributions in designing railroad bridges in America. He worked on Queensboro Bridge after joining (PSC) Pennsylvania Steel Company. He created famous steel arch bridge of New York City that famous with the name of Hell Gate. Bridge at Ohio River is also to his credit

advantages and shortcomings of four different types of bridge, namely the truss, suspension, beam, and cantilever bridges. Secondly, it evaluates three forces that act upon these bridges ㅡ compression, tension, and shear ㅡ and how each kind of bridge handles the forces. Lastly, it includes a explanation of the Tacoma Bridge incident and a description of the author’s bridge. Since tension, compression, and shear are to be discussed for each kind of bridge, here are definitions for those forces. Tension acts

solution was: Pick up the road and carry it across. Many suspension bridges are already well known for their frequent usage. For example, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Union Bridge connecting England to Scotland, and the Brooklyn Bridge, which expands New York City to surrounding islands. Now, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, a suspension bridge is “a bridge

impossible by the PWA (Shaul 24). The Mackinac Bridge Authority was dissolved entirely in in 1947 in light of World War II, but was re-opened to discussion in 1951 with very different plans on financing the bridge (Brown 8-9). After multiple appeals to the state and federal governments for funding to construct the bridge, the Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA) worked for the next two years to determine the economic costs of building the Mackinac Bridge. In 1952, they produced a figure of 76.3 million

History of the Bridge After the original Tacoma Bridge collapsed the designing of the Bridge that would replace the old one began soon after. However, there were various engineering issues which arose like, the demand of steel which was created by the United States deciding to be involved in the World War II and also inability of the Washington State to find and insurer (Arioli, 2013). All this factors delayed the construction of the bridge which was pushed to start the construction process to April

A bridge is a load bearing structure spanning a passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway. Some examples of bridge types are; suspension bridge (George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with New York City), truss arch bridge (Hurricane Deck Bridge in Hurricane Deck, Missouri), and a cable-stayed bridge (The modern Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Saint Petersburg). Another example is a cantilever bridge (the former Sunshine Skyway Bridge). Rarely do these structures ever have catastrophic

we have developed to cross large distances such as canyons or bodies of water is the bridge. Over the centuries, we have developed several variations of the bridge that vary in technological advancement and the capacity to cross longer distances. These bridge variations include the simple beam bridge, truss bridges, arch bridges, suspension bridges, and cable-stayed bridges. The key differences between these bridges