Articles Tagged with ''collapse''

The south side of a 100-year-old bridge in Tempe collapsed after a train derailment the morning of July 29.

Companies also will pay $650 million in compensation to the city of Cologne for damage caused in 2009 by the collapse of underground work.

Dam owners, state and local authorities must do a better job of understanding the history of the dams in their inventory as well as preparing for ice runs that could destroy dams like Nebraska's Spencer Dam, which collapsed under the weight of heavy rain combined with cold temperatures and frozen ground last spring.

American Concrete Institute says its first-ever initiative to develop a precast standard is not related to an article in Concrete International that sounds the alarm about the potential for brittle failures of non-code-compliant precast, prestressed-concrete double-T parking decks, with flanges reinforced with a high-strength polymer-coated carbon-fiber grid product, called C-Grid.