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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of bridge failures. Before 1800. Bridge ... Northbound lanes shored up with falsework and reopened 3 days later ...
Completed falsework: Decking and some formwork has been added. The illustrations are of modern pipe-column falsework, used to support the formwork for a post-tensioned reinforced concrete flyover connector for the eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. When the supports are complete, wood beams and plywood or reusable ...
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Fifty-one people were killed in these failures, leading in the UK to the formation of the Merrison Committee [4] and considerable investment in new research into steel box girder behaviour. Most of the bridges still under construction at this time were delayed for investigation of the basic design principle.
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This is a list of structural failures and collapses of buildings and other structures including bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The bridge was part of a viaduct built by contractor Marples Ridgway in Reading, Berkshire, as part of the A329(M) motorway, a link road to the M4 motorway to the east. The eastbound and westbound carriageways and a separate on-slip to the westbound carriageway were all constructed on separate post-tensioned reinforced concrete viaduct structures.
In the self-anchored suspension bridge, however, the cable must be anchored to the bridge deck, which has yet to be built and will not bear its own weight; ergo, falsework must be employed until the final method of suspension is possible. The cables apply strong axial forces onto the bridge girders, which may require strengthening.