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Default Bridge collapse in Miami
On 3/15/2018 8:10 PM, Alex wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/15/2018 7:54 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years.Â* It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day.Â* Engineering screw up?Â* Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
...
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?â€


My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)



One news report I heard was that they were doing stress tests on it.
Kinda dumb with heavy traffic driving under it.


I didn't hear about any equipment on the bridge.Â* I saw that they were
built off-site and set into place in sections.

The news report said they were doing stress tests *after* it was put in
place. But, you know how the news is. Everyone's trying to get an
"exclusive" and half the time the news is dead wrong.


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