TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure

Penamaluru Bridge over the Bandar Canal (2026)

India · Material deterioration · canal bridge inaugurated on 15 April 1932, closed to vehicles about ten years ago but still used by pedestrians and vendors

Vehicles had been banned a decade earlier on safety grounds; a wider bridge nearby carried the NH-65 traffic…

Read the full case — mechanism, cause chain, code changes →

More Material deterioration cases

BR-101 bridge over the Rio Paraíba (2026) · Aldridge Creek Trestle (2025) · Mujpur–Gambhira Bridge (2025) · Ringbahnbrücke (A100, Dreieck Funkturm) — near miss (2025) · Mary's River Rail Bridge (2025) · Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge (Tocantins) (2024)

One of 300 forensic bridge-failure case studies at TheBridgeEng — free, for engineers.