(March 15, 2018 at 6:59 pm)Succubus Wrote:(March 15, 2018 at 4:47 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Bridge wasn't even completed. Reports are it was either being tested or post tensioned when it failed.
What's left of it is a rather striking precast steel reinforced concrete structure. Apparently made off site and erected last Saturday. Approaches unfinished.
Stress testing a new structure over an open road system? Some people are in for a good fucking and or jail.
Yeah, that's not the way to do it. But I don't think that that was its first stress test. I will tell you that when I worked in a certain contractor's hangar at Cape Canaveral (many years ago), we were told to immediately land our payload and stop using the bridge crane. It was red-tagged during inspection because none of the fasteners on the main rails were ever tightened. I don't mean not spun up to contact, and not tightened properly. There were some nuts that had never been run into contact with the structure; this was evident by the corrosion on the bolts. This crane had been there and in use for 3 years at the time. So, no initial inspection, and two subsequent annual "inspections" where the problem was not noted. Lifting trop cher space flight hardware with unsafe equipment. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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