TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure
Ghana · Fatigue & fracture · 245 m two-hinged steel truss arch with suspended deck on steel cross girders
The deck of the 1957 arch hung from vertical hangers on steel cross girders that carried decades of heavy, often overloaded trucks with little maintenance…
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