Why Bridges Collapse

Oct 16, 2019 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

In 2018, Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, tragically killing 43 people. For 50 years, the iconic bridge had withstood the elements—and stress from ever-increasing traffic. What went wrong that fateful day? And how can new engineering technology prot... (more)ect bridge infrastructure to prevent such tragic failures in the future?

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