I was able to find an article on WeChat about the bridge.
I generated a PDF of the translated version. My browser didn't translate it all. I put some mark-ups on the translated parts.
It's a very strange article. From a journalistic perspective, it's a disaster. I'm not referring to the terrible translation I've done with Google. I'm referring to the way it's making a point in a pleading and accusing way. No way to figure out the author's relationship to the story. Also an awful mishmash of unrelated photos and documents, none of which seem to be related to the bridge that collapsed. I wonder if Chinese people are subjected to this drivel regularly. Unable to read Chinese myself I cannot track down the identity or credentials of the author.
From the perspective of a western reader, the tone very defensive. Points fingers in all directions. It's written the way you would expect from a person close to one of the culpable parties.
Anyway, it's at least "one" perspective on what "someone" in China thinks of the bridge disaster.
Pretty much everything like that is the same over there according to mates that work there.
Every event has to have someone to blame, on an individual bias and there must be punishment for every event. Be it financial, physical, humiliation or in this case I suspect death.
There are story's of Captains getting 2000$ fines for bird strikes in china even when no damage occurs. In Europe and USA its 10 mins filling out a stats form and nothing more is said about it.
Well that label is interesting. It looks like those rolls of steel really could be 28.5 tonnes each.
I did a quick calc based on volume of a roll and there are about 2 to 2.5 m3 of steel in one of those rolls (depends on the dimensions you use).
no idea how the trailer isn't visibly bowing or the tyres not blowing out, but overloaded truck does now look like a distinct possibility.
Long single point spans are vulnerable to that, but I don't think the designers should be held up for an overload of possibly 3 or 4 times the design load.
The fact that there wasn't much traffic probably led to the issue as there were no balancing forces...
Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.
That "article" sounds very basic... it's practically instructing the reader on the basic process of how engineering designs are handled (do readers really need to be told designs are reviewed, or be told what a "consultant" is/does?). It reads more like a home blogger with no journalistic/writing background than something from a reputable (or even state-owned) paper.
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