Author Topic: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?  (Read 395 times)

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What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
« on: June 16, 2021, 09:03:30 AM »
What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?







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Re: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2021, 09:19:35 AM »
A very interesting video that cleared up a lot of my own misperceptions regarding what will be involved in properly repairing the bridge.  Thanks for posting this, GS.
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Re: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2021, 11:12:06 AM »
A very interesting video that cleared up a lot of my own misperceptions regarding what will be involved in properly repairing the bridge.  Thanks for posting this, GS.

You are welcome.  There is always a story behind the publicity.  That's what I dig for.

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Re: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2021, 12:09:28 PM »
That's an ugly, and going to be expensive, mess. Thankful that it was found before it became a disaster.
Hubris, apathy, stupidity and greed seem to be responsible for many such disasters and accompanying loss of life.

How many decades have we been dealing with the impending disaster of our failing infrastructure here in the US and yet so damn little has been done to address it other than line the pockets of corrupt politicians and their cronies?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/bridge-collapse-history-trnd/index.html

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Re: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2021, 02:21:03 PM »
That stretching of the tension members of the support system answered a lot of questions for me.  Seems like instinctively when I look at an I-beam it's subject to compression or bending forces, never tension.  Just seems that way somehow to my primitive mind,

I'm not 100% sure that guy deserved firing.  I can imagine he thought, gee, it's been reported before, everybody knows about it and nobody's bothering to fix it, so why report it again?  But I may be excessively charitable today.

Nice research, Grandpa Shooter !

Thanks.

And thanks for this, RoadKingLarry !

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/bridge-collapse-history-trnd/index.html

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