Baltimore bridge collapse: How safe are similar bridges?
When you look at this accident it would appear at least at this point that the container ship literally hit the support headon and there’s not a bridge you can build that’s supported at two points that can survive one of those points being removed how many other types of
Bridges are there in America that are built like this and indeed the world because you mentioned it was a trust bridge for those who are listening that are not familiar with how bridges are built what does that mean uh well in the UK you have the most famous canver
Bridge in the world the first and fourth Railway Bridge um a beautiful structure that’s had a number of bridges built um uh around it that was created after the collapse of the F of Tay which is in your own history was a story of learning
About what we can and can’t do with uh metal uh bridge design so a lot of this was learned from you these bridges are all over the world they’re stable and some of them you know have you know more than 100e design lives that they’re they’re handling just fine um I think
Other things have changed
On this edition of the Sky News Daily, Sky’s Leah Boleto speaks to Ben Schafer, a structural engineer at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, who explains the safety of similar bridges.
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6 comments
WTF was that?
He said a lot without saying much.
America is a continent not an specific country.
Ask her what a women is .
It’s more design
Design to go over a harbor
Wasn’t the design that failed
It was the 3rd world ship owned by the 1st world through 3rd parties
So why was the ship heading straight for the support and not the center between the supports?