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Not an engineer, not an expert whatsoever, just went to an engineering school and was forced to design bridges for a semester and from what little I remember most bridges would've fallen just the same. They're built flexible to withstand wind, waves and minor earthquakes but not boats the size of the bridge crashing into them.Any engineers here?
I dont think bridges are supposed to collapse like that on impact. That entire bridge came down. You would think only a section of it would.
These bridges also did not cost the sameBro. Listen to me.
We just got a new bridge up here. One of the requirements was that it had to withstand a fully loaded container ship collision.
A container ship can hit a few columns and it still wouldn’t matter. There are like 60 dual columns on it.
The new Tappan Zee Bridge btw.
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