Ashtabula River Failures Bridge Structural Engineering
Collapse of steel rail bridge over the Ashtabula River in Ohio on 29 December 1876. The bridge failure was caused by design flaws - the truss members merely rested upon each other instead of being bolted together.
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Ashtabula River
See Also:
- Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss: Ashtabula Bridge Disaster - Newspaper and eye-witness accounts of the Ashtabula, Ohio, bridge railroad train failures wreck disaster.
- Ashtabula Rail Bridge, 1876 - Collapse of iron and mortar railway bridge. bridge Detailed account, bridge historical notes, enquiry findings and bridge before/after photographs.
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