Failures

The Millennium Bridge - http://www.arup.com/MillenniumBridge/
Discusses the foot bridge in London and the swaying that occurred in 2000 due to synchronous lateral excitation of steel cable foot bridge. Includes engineers drawings, public questions answered, solutions proposed, and photographs.

Awful Plunge - http://mypage.direct.ca/r/robinl/awfulplunge.html
Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896.

Wood Bridge Failure Analysis - http://www.roberts.ezpublishing.com/croberts/bridge.htm
Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs.

Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page - http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.

The Fall of a Bridge at Cornwall, Ontario. - http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/brcorn.Html
Long Sault Rapids Bridge, 1898. Collapse of steel framed rail bridge. Description of events and photographs.

A Bridge Collapse in Portugal Kills up to 70 People - http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/Portugal_Bridge/
Ponte de Ferro Bridge, 2001. Links to news articles about the collapse (owing to illegal sand extraction) of a concrete bridge over the Douro River in Portugal.

Speedway Bridge at North Carolina, USA - http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/2000_Speedway/
Lowe's speedway bridge collapse, 2000. Links to news articles about the collapse, owing to incorrect application of materials, of a concrete pedestrian walkway spanning a four-lane highway in North Carolina, USA.

Br 169 Lancaster and Carlisle Line - http://www.dhaynes.freeserve.co.uk/fmrc/06_br169lc/06_br169lc.htm
Glanrhyd Bridge, 1987. Collapse of steel/masonry rail bridge in Wales, owing to scour. Summary of background and later preventative work to other bridge in Penrith, England, with map, photographs and drawings.

Merrillan Bridge Collapse - http://www.greenbayroute.com/1968merrillanwreck.htm
Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.

Rainbow Bridge Collapse, 1938 - http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Ko/cards/nf013.html
Photograph, from Vintageviews of New York, of this iron bridge after its collapse.

Liquefaction - http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~es10/fieldtripEarthQ/Damage1.html
Discussion of liquefaction caused by earthquakes and its effects on roads and bridges. Photographs of Watsonville brige in California, USA.

Maccabiah Bridge Collapse Blame Falls Far and Wide - http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6631/edition_id/124/format/html/displaystory.html
Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong.

Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters - http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/disaster/
Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.

California's Temporary Freeway Bridge - http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall95/p95a2.htm
Arroyo Pasajero Twin Bridges, 1995. Collapse of motor bridge because of foundation scour. Temporarily replaced by innovative bridge made from surplus railroad flatcars.

Point Ellice Bridge Disaster - http://collections.ic.gc.ca/peh/tour/gartour/bridge.htm
Short description of the collapse of wooden bridge on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1896, under weight of tramway car.

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