I-35W Mississippi River bridge

1 Analysis of a Tragically Engineered System: The Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse Antonio Larios SYST 505 Professor Rochelle Jones February 6, 2017 George Mason University 2 Background The Interstate 35 West (I-35W) Mississippi River Bridge was a steel truss bridge built by the Industrial Construction Company and Hurcon Inc. between 1964 and 1967. Located in downtown Minneapolis, the bridge spanned over 1,900 feet across the Mississippi River and had a width of eight lanes (Minnesota, 2007). As early as 1991, the I-35W Bridge had already been labelled “structurally deficient” by inspectors. Despite the deteriorating condition, it was not legally necessary to place any load restrictions on the bridge. Throughout the bridge’s 40 years of service,…

Introduction The I-35W bridge was fully constructed and opened in November 1967 over the West Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the length of the bridge was 1907 feet and its maximum span length was 458 feet. It had 8 traffic lanes and a height of 64 feet above the water. On the evening of August 1st, 2007 this steel arch deck truss bridge collapsed during rush hour. This paper will investigate the cause of this failure and provide…

On 1st August, 2007, an eight-lane, three-span section of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suddenly collapsed. 145 people were injured, and thirteen died. This case study is based on an investigation of material evidence provided by the NASA Safety Center(NSC), National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a full-scale load rating of the bridge superstructure. Proximate (Direct) Cause: Gusset plates…

The I-35W Mississippi bridge was an eight lane, three span deck truss bridge which carried the interstate highway 35 across the Mississippi river. It was located in the biggest city of Minnesota, Minneapolis. It carried around 140,000 vehicles per day, making it the second busiest bridge in Minnesota. Construction repair and renew work was scheduled to be carried on the bridge again in 2020 or so. However, on August 1st, 2007, it collapsed all of a sudden, thereby killing 13 people and injuring…

the Louisiana Territory. On the year of 1803, the United States successfully bought approximately 827,000 square miles of land of the Mississippi River for fifteen million dollars from the France. During the purchase, Thomas Jefferson had a moral dilemma while his decision of purchasing Louisiana from the French Government. Thomas Jefferson believed in a strict interpretation of the U.S Constitution. On the other hand, his opponent Alexander Hamilton believed in the loose interception of the U.S…

Throughout American Literature, there are many great Authors noticed and awarded for their excellence. Samuel L. Clemens was one of many noticed authors and was recognized under the pseudonym as Mark Twain. Mark Twain was a novelist, journalist and literary critic; therefore, he was noticed as a great American writer in literature. Also, well known for his classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wrote in 1884 (Samuel). Mark was born in Florida on November 30, 1835 to John Marshall…

of America. War was on the minds of both the confederates, and the union with both sides excited for battle. Both sides were convinced that their side was right, and were even more convinced that the war would be over shortly not knowing that it would turn into the bloodiest conflict in American history to this day. On July 21st 1861 the battle of First Bull Run took place, and both sides quickly realized that this war might last longer than they thought. The union being the attacking force…

Local literature recorded the characteristic of cultures of many parts of the country that were missing the social and economic innovation, which, in Huckleberry Finn’s case, was the Mississippi River culture. Therefore, the book is about the community history and their life that has been missing of growth, the conception that Twain disliked. In fact, what makes Twain a modern writer is his hate of the idea of modernization and his experience of the deceptions of progress makes him one of the…

soon they would send the Yankees running with their tails between their legs spread like wild fire. Little did they know of the industrial might of the Union? As most of the men of the Confederacy Seth “Hoot” Davis and Samuel Jeremiah Jones rushed to join a regiment, the nearest was being raised by the wealthy planter, Jacques Roman. Jeremiah and Seth departed home in April of 1861 to join the 10th Louisiana Calvary each taking two extra horses and a male slave to attend their needs. Seth…

World War I & Poetry Arising during the 1920’s, a time period where strong animosity ran deep between the colored and the Caucasian, Langston Hughes (who is my favorite poet of all time) shined a luminous spotlight on the African American community through his writing in a way that no other writer during his time was able to match. Amongst other emerging black writers, Hughes led the parade of the Harlem Renaissance where a faucet of culture trickled in self expression through music, art, and…