Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "The Florida International University Bridge Disaster 2018 | Plainly Difficult Short Documentary" video.

  1. Requiring the bridge to undergo less than 1 degree of misalignment during construction was a clear sign of poor design. 1 degree on a structure of that length is tiny and almost certainly impossible to achieve. Add in the poor design that concentrated tension loads at the ends and the result was inevitable.
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  2. This sounds like a similar situation to the failure of Genoa Morandi Bridge in 2018. In Italy the root cause was corrosion of steel tension cables. However (like Florida), a single point failure led to total collapse.
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