TheBridgeEng · Learning from Failure
Kazakhstan · Scour · Road bridge over the Ulba River, built 1941 as a temporary railway bridge and converted to road use in 1949 with concrete beams; 16 m central span collapsed
The bridge was closed from November 2023 to March 2024 for repairs to its load-bearing structure costing more than 600 million tenge.…
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