Sometimes it is impossible to avoid using an end joint on your bridge. But you can add a gusset to get all the benefits of a lap joint. In fact, you can make two gussets to create the strongest joint possible.
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One truss-type bridge with gussets, on 13th Street in Tacoma, was closed in late September and the state is weighing whether to repair or replace it. The state Route 529 bridge between Everett and Marysville, also a truss span, was rebuilt in the 1990s.
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Bridge Gusset Plate Ultrasonic Inspection. Picture from Video. Application Solution: Pocket UT™. The Pocket UT™, is a hand held, battery powered, C-scan ...
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Linda is interviewed by Darcy Pohland of WCCO on 01/15/08. She is commenting on the NTSB news conference in which it was revealed that improperly designed ...
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On a steel deck truss bridge -- the kind that collapsed in Minnesota -- the steel girders that fit together to hold up the bridge are connected with gusset plates. Oregon State University structural engineer Chris Higgins says gussets plates are the most efficient way to connect two parts, or members as he calls them.
news.opb.org/article/gusset-plates-role-bridge-collapse... news.opb.org/article/gusset-plates-role-bridge-collapse-considered/
Fracture and Fatigue The Maryland Experience Third Annual Bridge Workshop University of Delaware March 5, 2004 Fracture and Fatigue The Maryland Experience Fracture and Fatigue Problems Questions asked of bridge owners: Do we have bridges like this?
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Description: Gusset bridge plate illuminated by strong sidelight ... No Comments on Gusset bridge plate ... Night Bridge...
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Yesterday, while investigators were focusing on possible design flaws in gussets on the I-35W bridge, searchers found two more bodies in the interstate wreckage. The bodies were found by divers, according to authorities.
www.post-gazette.com/pg/07222/808473-147.stm
"Inner Belt Bridge gussets not as thin." Hooray! Cleveland has fat gussets!!!! ... undersized gussets for a bridge built decades ago??? And here all along I heard that was BUSH's FAULT the bridge collapsed? wow so now the media and liberals are saying it's not BUSH's fault? I don't understand I thought everything was...
blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/investigators_cite_col... blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/investigators_cite_collapsed_m.html
Most types of deck-truss bridges are no longer built, and no one is coming up with ways to fix them. Under traditional formulas, the Inner Belt Bridge gussets should have held up.
blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/05/emergency_safety_repai... blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/05/emergency_safety_repairs_were.html
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