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s0001423 |
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03/31/01 |
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08/20/09 |
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| Replaced by: |
Silver Memorial Bridge (1969)
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| Description | Value |
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| cables |
steel eye-bars
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| towers |
steel
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| truss |
steel
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main span |
213.5 m | | |
total length |
681.2 m |
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| 31 December 1951
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| Tolls cease. |
| 15 December 1967
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| 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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Ballard, Wilson An Eye-bar Suspension span for the Ohio River, in
"Engineering News Record", June 1929 .
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Jackson, Donald C. Great American Bridges and Dams, John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA) , ISBN 0471143855, 1984; pp. 326-327.
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LeRose, Chris The Collapse of the Silver Bridge, West Virginia Historicy Society Quarterly, v. XV, n. 4, 10/2001.
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