SPRINGFIELD — Clark County Commissioners on Thursday authorized a legal load reduction for three of the county’s 19 “fracture-critical” bridges. Loads for the Clifton Road Bridge 1834, about 1 1/2 ...
Even after millions of cycles of load successfully applied, left unchecked, there can be a fatigue crack that grows to be critical under a single additional cycle of load applied at a given ...
Both spans of the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Columbia River are considered “fracture critical” by the Oregon Department of Transportation, meaning if one crucial part of the bridge sustains a big ...
A Purdue civil engineer will purposely damage a bridge spanning the Ohio River to learn more about how bridges collapse. August 8, 2011 WEST LAFAYETTE, IN - A civil engineer at Purdue University is ...