TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure
China · Flood / debris · Y-shaped rigid-frame (balanced cantilever), 220 m main span, 172 m pier
Reservoir impoundment at Shuangjiangkou raised groundwater in the right-bank slope; the survey firm had faked required borehole counts…
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