Have you ever crossed a bridge when driving around your city and thought about how it was constructed or how long did it take to be built or is this bridge really safe and will it ever fall down. Well‚ I certainly have and I know that I don’t want for a bridge to fall down whenever I am driving or walking across one. It was 6:05 pm‚ the rush hour in Minneapolis‚ Minnesota and the unimaginable at the I-35W bridge occurred. On August 1‚ 2007 the 1‚907 foot long bridge collapsed leaving dozens of cars
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------------------------------------------------- Bixby Creek Bridge Bixby Creek Bridge‚ also known as Bixby Bridge‚ is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Big Sur‚ California. The bridge is located 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco and 13 miles (21 km) south of Carmel in Monterey County along California Highway One. Prior to the opening of the bridge in 1932‚ residents of the Big Sur area were virtually cut off during winter due to the often impassable Old Coast Road that
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The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest and most iconic bridges in the world this majestic bridge is located in New York City‚ New York. In 1853‚ the only way to get from Brooklyn to New York City was by ferry boat. John Roebling‚ a famous bridge builder‚ was on a ferry stuck between ice chunks in the middle of winter. He set out to design and build a bridge connecting these two cities. Building the Brooklyn Bridge would not be an easy undertaking. The bridge would need to be high enough
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Earthquake Resistant Bridges Jacqueline Stoy 4/24/2013 Geography of Cultural Diversity 3350:275 Tuesday/Thursday 12:05-12:55 Throughout history‚ bridges have been a primary means of transportation. Unfortunately‚ natural disasters have come to destroy such bridges on many occasions. One of the most deadly natural disasters to face the bridges is earthquakes. The movement of the ground causes the supporting beams and columns to twist and collapse‚ often resulting in injury or death for
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to investigate the failure of the bridge is because “THE BRIDGE DIDN’T LAST A YEAR”. What was wrong with the bridge? But the incident completely changed the way in which bridges were built. This report has been requested by the Board of Engineers and Washington State Authority‚ to provide a clear information to how the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had collapsed and how did this change bridge designing. The scope of the report is to give key information on how the bridge collapsed? What could have been done
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A View from the Bridge - Notes “Just remember‚ kid‚ you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.” Eddie speaks this quote in Act I‚ while eating dinner with Beatrice and Catherine. This quote reveals the irony and madness of Eddie’s character. In the beginning of the play‚ Eddie tells the story of a young boy who called immigration on his relatives. Eddie lectures Catherine about how they must tell no one about Marco and Rodolpho‚ the illegal immigrant
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English 3 (Technical Communication) Mendez‚ Charles Wayne M. I. Introduction Suspension bridges in their simplest form were originally made from rope and wood. Modern suspension bridges use a box section roadway supported by high tensile strength cables. In the early nineteenth century‚ suspension bridges used iron chains for cables. The high tensile cables used in most modern suspension bridges were introduced in the late nineteenth century. Today‚ the cables are made of thousands of individual
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Case study 7.2 The Tacoma narrows Suspension Bridge. In the Tacoma narrows bridge project the project planning was fairly planned‚ developers and Engineers did not coordinate proper strategies and a scope management for this project‚ even before its inauguration and opening‚ the bridge exhibited strange characteristics that were noticeable right away. I think the only appropriate project planning was the budget that was obtains by the federal
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Third Bridge Conundrum Istanbul‚ where also known as Constantinopolis‚ is one of the oldest cities in the world history. Istanbul is the most populous city in Turkey and still Istanbul’s population is increasing day by day because of the new births and immigration. Due to high population‚ there is too many cars in Istanbul. Therefore‚ there is traffic problems which affects people’s life negatively. In order to solve traffic porblems government looking for solutions continuously. Although it
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always on the top of the list. But when thinking about Australia there are two super structures that come to mind‚ The Sydney Opera House and The Sydney Harbour Bridge. In this short report it can be found small history along with a short description about the Sydney Bridge. II. Main Body II.1 History The first plans to build a bridge actually goes back to year of 1815‚ but it wasn’t until 1922‚ after being delayed manly because of the WWI‚ that the parliament approved the laws for the construction
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