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Bridge Failure Database

Steel box girder bridge Zeulenroda

Year 1973
Type Road
Country Germany (55)
Cause Limited knowledge
Details Plate buckling of bottom chord (cantilevered construction)
Fatalities 4
Injuries 5
Collapse partial
Phase construction
Period 1941-1990
Continent Europe
References SCHEER, J., Versagen von Bauwerken, Band 1: Brücken, Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, 2000.
http://www.brueckenweb.de/Themen/katastrophen/katastrophen.php

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