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Article: How to Avoid the Next Big Dig Tragedy.
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- Design News
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- July 14, 2008
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By Doug Smock, Contributing Editor, Materials and Fastening
Engineers need to understand basic failure modes of polymers, such as creep resistance, and rely less on supplier data sheets
The dust has settled from the Big Dig (http://rbi.ims.ca/5717-559 ) tunnel collapse in Boston two years ago, but there are still important lessons for engineers to learn from the fatal tragedy, which was easily avoidable.
'The message still hasn't adequately penetrated enough that when engineers are dealing with new materials, they should use caution with the sources that they rely on,' says Myer Ezrin, a failure analysis expert and former researcher at the ...
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Article: Boston's Big Dig Is Finally Completed
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December 25, 2007 ;
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... ... the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex ... 6 million settlement with Powers Fasteners, the company that manufactured ... are pending against other Big Dig contractors, and Powers Fasteners still faces a manslaughter ...
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