However, the bridge was reopened after officials from the Indiana Highway Department inspected it and found that the ”cracks” were expansion joints in the roadway that are designed to open and ...

Damage on Buckman Bridge closes SB lanes, causes traffic nightmare during rush hour To account for that movement, expansion joints are put in bridges. Without those joints, there would be cracks ...

Eight months before runaway cracks drove the West Seattle ... The neoprene bearings above two of the bridge’s piers, that allow thermal expansion as temperatures change, were deformed.

What is that "crack" in the bridge connecting North Hill to downtown Akron? In short, it is no crack at all. A Facebook post by the City of Akron explaining the logic behind a crack-like feature ...

City engineers think the bridge was “particularly vulnerable” to extreme weather fluctuations due to its design, Scheinfeld said. The cracks happened at the expansion joint, which was designed ...

In 1996 a bridge in Palau, which slumped 5 feet, was tightened to restore its correct shape. Three months later, it collapsed at a preexisting crack, killing two people. Creep also helped cause ...

“WSDOT has had to repair the U.S. 2 Pilchuck River Bridge expansion joints a couple of ... plate at that joint may have become fatigued, cracked and then just failed.” As for further ...

The Blankenship Bridge will be temporarily closed starting June 3.Crews from the Flathead County Road and Bridge Department ...

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A stress crack on the Harrison Avenue Bridge in Scranton on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. The new Harrison Avenue Bridge, which cost $30.8 million to design and build, replaced the prior bridge that ...

(WSAZ) - After a crack appeared Thursday night on Goff Mountain ... it caused the earth underneath the bridge to soften which led to the cracking of the concrete. Pack also said in the release ...