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Structure-ID: s0001423
Created on: 31/03/01
Modified on: 20/08/09


Silver Bridge

Completed in: 1928
Status: destroyed
Location: Between Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA and Kanauga, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Crossed: Ohio River
Silver Bridge
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Structural Type:
Suspension bridge
gravity-anchored, deck truss
Function / usage:
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
Replaced by: Silver Memorial Bridge (1969)

Firms, offices, etc. involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
RoleNamePart of structure 
Construction American Bridge Company
  General Construction Company
  J. E. Greiner Company

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
cables  steel eye-bars
towers  steel
truss  steel
Dimensions
  main span 213.5 m
  total length 681.2 m

Chronology
31 December 1951
Tolls cease.
15 December 1967
Without warning the bridge collapses causing the death of 46 persons. A study finds fatigue failure in the eye bar connections as cause of the accident.

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External LinkNTSB: Highway Accident Report: Collapse of the U.S. 35 Highway Bridge English
External LinkOhio Valley Transit: Silver Bridge / Silver Memorial Bridge English
External LinkThe Point Pleasant / Silver Bridge Disaster English
External LinkWest Virginia Archives and History: Silver Bridge Tragedy English
External LinkWest Virginia Historical Society Quarterly: The Collapse of the Silver Bridge English
External LinkWikipedia: Silver Bridge German
External LinkWikipedia: Silver Bridge Dutch / Flemish
External LinkWikipédia: Silver Bridge French
External LinkWikipedia: Silver Bridge (bridge) English
External LinkВикипедия: Серебряный мост Russian

Relevant Literature
* Ballard, Wilson   An Eye-bar Suspension span for the Ohio River, in "Engineering News Record", June 1929 .
* Jackson, Donald C.   Great American Bridges and Dams, John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA) , ISBN 0471143855, 1984; pp. 326-327.
* LeRose, Chris   The Collapse of the Silver Bridge, West Virginia Historicy Society Quarterly, v. XV, n. 4, 10/2001.

 
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