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Ladakh bridge collapse due to wind loading: four workers found dead, injured shifted to hospital
- Apr, 10, 2022
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Wind Engineering Bridges Structural Stability Other Structural News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures News On Natural Disasters/Phenomena Other News
- Ladakh
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Four workers were found dead under the debris of an under-construction bridge which collapsed in Nubra sub-division of Ladakh, officials said on Sunday. A section of the under-construction Shatse T...
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North Carolina: a pedestrian bridge collapses, video reveals the arches collapsing
- Feb, 18, 2022
- Bridges Bridge Abutments Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Wood Structures Arches Wind Engineering News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures News On Natural Disasters/Phenomena
- United States, North Carolina, Hickory
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
The 40-ton arches that topped a bridge collapsed after strong winds and storms on February 18 in Hickory, North Carolina. A new video shows it happening. The incident happened overnight, and no one...
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Category 4 hurricane Ida hit Louisiana: neighborhoods left underwater
- Aug, 29, 2021
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- United States, Louisiana
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Category 4 hurricane Ida hit southeastern Louisiana's Port Fourchon at a around 1 p.m. August 29th and slowly scraped across the state, delivering catastrophic winds and torrential rain to the same...
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Solution under way for Golden Gate Bridge “humming”
- May, 17, 2021
- Bridges Wind Engineering Wind Tunnel Structural Loads News On Failures
- United States, California , San Francisco
- Authored by: George Zalachoris
For the past 12 months, windy days in and around San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge have been characterized by a loud ‘humming’ noise. The iconic structure started emanating the eerie hum fol...
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Concrete “waves” formed at Humen Bridge in China
- May, 05, 2020
- Bridge Management Bridges Decks Wind Engineering News On Events News On Natural Disasters/Phenomena
- China, Guangzhou
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Tuesday May 5th, the top of the Humen Bridge, Southern China’s suspension bridge, oscillated like the surface of the ocean. Strong winds are responsible for the unusual behavior. At the time, the...
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