This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse

The wild story of Washington Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island. Just like engineers design structures to be ductile, to fail with grace and warning, we want and need projects like this to happen in an orderly fashion. We should be able to recognize when replacement is necessary, plan ahead for the...

20 min - Engineering & Megastructures - Practical Engineering

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