TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure

Jeongja Bridge sidewalk (정자교) (2023)

South Korea · Design error · 1 deaths · cantilevered sidewalk on a 1st-gen new-town bridge

A 30-year-old cantilever sidewalk carried de-icing water into its rebar plane…

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