Loma Prieta earthquake / Bay Bridge collapse 02:39 US secretary of state signs condolence book at Turkish Embassy in DC for quake victims San Francisco Earthquake 1906 00:11 Southern California Hit By Second Big Earthquake In Two Days 00:37 ...
It recounts the collapse of the Bay Bridge in 1989 when San Francisco, California was hit by a 7.1. magnitude earthquake. It mentions the efforts done by the researchers to study several types of bridge columns.MontalbanoElizabethDesign News...
The top section fell onto the cars on the bottom section, resulting in42 deaths. The bottom section held up, so it didn't completely collapse into the water. Many residents living nearby in West Oakland started to do whatever they could to helprescuethose trapped on the bridge. Although the...
1970Chimbote, Peru7.9…70,000Most of the damage and loss of life resulting from theAncash earthquake of 1970was caused by landslides and the collapse of poorly constructed buildings. 1972Managua, Nicaragua6.2…10,000The centre of the capital of Nicaragua was almost completely destroyed; the busines...
which took place over 50 miles from San Francisco but nevertheless managed to render uninhabitable dozens of homes in the city, collapse a portion of an interstate in west Oakland, damage the Bay Bridge, and force the demolition of a freeway along the Embarcadero. And this was in a comparati...
My first thought was that the upper deck was about to collapse.” My telephone worked for one call to the office. Then it went dead and worked only intermittently over the next half hour. Many of the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics walked out of their dugouts and stood on the...
Crews extricated Buck Helm from the pancaked freeway four days after its collapse. He later died of his injuries. KTVU FOX 2’s Ken Wayne caught up with his son and ex-wife years later at a memorial. "It's still painful," wife Lorrie Helm told him. "It still brings back a lot ...
The most tragic effect of the failures in the transportation system was the loss of life in the collapse of the Cypress structure on Interstate 880 in Oakland and of the section of the Bay Bridge. Less dramatic, but disrupting the daily routines of thousands of commuters, were the traffic ...
Her main research areas are progressive collapse mechanisms of frame and flat plate structures, finite element analysis and modelling, failure analysis of planar continuum structures with and without openings, cracking and punching shear failure analyses in flat slab systems, bridge deterioration modelling...
bridge designers, due to useless and long procedures to gain results. However, often a simple elastic design procedure can be adopted. The most damaging excitations are horizontal motions, in the longitudinal and transverse direction of the bridge: these can often lead to a partial collapse (e....