You can tell from the photo there was a retrofit done with the tension cable, which the fractured bracing member was mostly for, to resist the tension from the lateral force from wind. I’m not familiar with the failure of this bridge, as a bridge engineer I’m quite interested in this.
thenewyorkgod on January 28th, 2022 at 18:40 UTC »
Source: https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569
StenosP on January 28th, 2022 at 18:41 UTC »
And my congressman voted against infrastructure spending
tqi2 on January 28th, 2022 at 19:50 UTC »
You can tell from the photo there was a retrofit done with the tension cable, which the fractured bracing member was mostly for, to resist the tension from the lateral force from wind. I’m not familiar with the failure of this bridge, as a bridge engineer I’m quite interested in this.