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Article: States advised to check gusset plates on steel bridges.(Policy and Legislation)(Brief article)
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- Public Roads
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- May 1, 2008
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In an effort to ensure bridge safety, USDOT officials recently issued a technical advisory calling on State transportation officials to calculate how changes in weight, capacity, or bridge conditions could affect a steel bridge's gusset plates.
The advisory, issued on January 15, 2008, follows updates by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) indicating that stress on gusset plates--the metal pieces that hold individual girders together on some bridges--might have been a factor in the August 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W (I-35W) bridge in Minneapolis, MN. Although NTSB has not yet determined a definitive cause for the collapse, USDOT issued the ...
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