Another cable-stayed Bridge in Colombia. 3

[X4vier]

After this bridge collapse in my country..
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Now we bring the "Hisgaura Bridge" that folds up and down like an accordion.

The national news begins with this document leaked through Whatsapp.
[link Informe Fotográfico]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xECx7PgTc1vIkmXwcditDpioruLhhnhb/view?usp=sharing

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What do you think ? It's only cosmetic or its form can lead to it's failure.
[link Anexo]

https://files.engineering.com/getfi...8e2-4a08e0a5f6fe&file=INFORME_FOTOGRÁFICO.pdf

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[jhardy1]

The images showing vehicles on the bridge appear to be computer renders. We may never see pictures of this particular bridge carrying live traffic.

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[jhardy1]

@LionelHutz:

The original text reads:
El Gobierno busca tener clara la capacidad real de carga de esta estructura, la cual ha sido criticada por la forma irregular de uno de sus costados.

Google Translate renders this as:
The Government seeks to be clear about the real capacity of loading this structure, which has been criticized for the irregular shape of one of its sides.

Could this just be a translation issue, and the original actually means "the irregular shape of one of its spans", rather than implying irregularity from side to side?

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[MacGyverS2000]

No confusion with the word costado/costados... it means side/sides about any way you cut it.

Lapso would be a more appropriate choice if they meant span (in relation to a bridge).

Now, translation from reality to verbiage via the reporter, however, is a different animal altogether...

Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

 

[TenPenny]

"The Government seeks to be clear about the real capacity of loading this structure, which has been criticized for the irregular shape of one of its sides."

I seem to recall that one of the articles mentioned something about the UPSTREAM side vs the DOWNSTREAM side, which leads me wonder if one side is relatively straight, while the other side has an artistic flair of random undulations, and would also corroborate that it is the 'sides' that is correct.

Are there pictures of both sides of that span? I'm not in a place where I can surf easily, so I'll have to dig around later.

 

[JAE]

I didn't realize that Frank Gehry was living in Colombia and was designing bridges.


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[thebard3]

I didn't realize that Frank Gehry was living in Colombia and was designing bridges.

I had to google that.

Brad Waybright

It's all okay as long as it's okay.

 

[X4vier]

What do you think.
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[hokie66]

I think there are some very brave people in Colombia. Were the design engineers on the bridge with the trucks?

Those tie beams still look very puny.

 

[JAE]

Was that some kind of load test? What was the point?

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[charliealphabravo]

Six of the seven trucks had tarps over the dump box. I hope someone checked the load.

 

[zeusfaber]

Was that an optimistic vulture circling somewhere around the 18s mark?

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