Collapse of Steel Bridges

What is it about?

The study concerns bridge collapses focusing on metal structures with a short overview of the occidental history of metal bridges and with a classification of the most common causes of bridge failure, which include structural and design deficiencies, corrosion, construction and supervision mistakes, accidental overload and impact, scour, lack of maintenance or inspection, and main forcé.

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Why is it important?

The work concludes that without the disaster that represents each bridge collapse, we would have neither the structural behavior knowledge nor the relatively high safety of today.