Construction Equipment
Ag Equipment
Roadbuilding
Dealers
Business
Technology
Tag: fracture critical
Roadbuilding
AP analysis deems 7,795 bridges both structurally deficient and fracture critical
A recent Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory has proven 7,795 — 1.2 percent — of those bridges to be both structurally deficient and fracture critical. The report also found that 65,605 of the bridges were classified only as “structurally deficient,” while 20,808 were found to be […]
September 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Can your bridges withstand a hit by a heavy semi?
A disturbingly large number of America’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete (see Better Roads’ November bridge inventory). But how many are “fracture-critical?” Washington State’s collapsed I-5 bridge was fracture-critical when it was hit by a heavily loaded truck. But it is far from alone in the state of Washington in that classification and […]
July 18, 2013
Roadbuilding
More than 200 Washington bridges are fracture-critical
More than 200 of Washington state’s bridges are classified as fracture-critical and could collapse if a key component of the bridge fails, according to KUOW. Of those bridges, at least three have been struck multiple times in the past five years, putting the bridges at a higher risk of collapsing. The Interstate 5 span that […]
July 17, 2013
Roadbuilding
Better Bridges
Engineers on ropes doing specialized structural inspections.
May 5, 2012
Page 1 of 1