TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure
Japan · Wind / aeroelastic · 6 deaths · steel trestle rail viaduct, 310 m long, 41 m high, San'in Line
The 41 m high open steel trestle carried trains with no wind screens across a valley exposed to Sea of Japan gales…
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Humen Bridge vibration — near miss (2020) · Yi Sun-sin Bridge vortex-induced vibration (이순신대교) (2014) · Volgograd 'Dancing' Bridge (2010) · Kinzua Viaduct (2003) · Fred Hartman Bridge stays — near miss (1997) · Erasmusbrug stays — near miss (1996)
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