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EDITORIAL Bridge Structures Vol. 5, Nos. 2–3, June–September 2009, 61–62 The shocking collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on August 1, 2007, served another wakeup call to the bridge engineering community. The collapse took place during rush hour plunging dozens of cars and their occupants into the river. Each bridge failure, since the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster in 1940, has prompted radical changes in the standards of design and construction. However, a paradigm shift is necessary in the inspection, monitoring and preventive maintenance practices to restore the public’s confidence in the safety of bridges. Issues of bridge safety and reliability are shared by bridge engineers from different countries. This special issue of Bridge Structures presents a number of selected papers that were presented at the Fifth New York City Bridge Conference, held on August 17–18, 2009. These papers provide invaluable contributions to the state-of-the-art in bridge engineering. The issue leads off with off with a paper by Hopwood et al. ‘‘Addressing SCC-susceptible ASTM A514 steel on the I-275 twin bridges over the Ohio River’’. Failure analyses of cracked splice plates made from ASTM A514 quenched and tempered steel revealed that the steel http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bridge Structures IOS Press

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Mahmoud, Khaled M.
Bridge Structures , Volume 5 (2) – Jan 1, 2009
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Bridge Structures Vol. 5, Nos. 2–3, June–September 2009, 61–62 The shocking collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on August 1, 2007, served another wakeup call to the bridge engineering community. The collapse took place during rush hour plunging dozens of cars and their occupants into the river. Each bridge failure, since the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster in 1940, has prompted radical changes in the standards of design and construction. However, a paradigm shift is necessary in the inspection, monitoring and preventive maintenance practices to restore the public’s confidence in the safety of bridges. Issues of bridge safety and reliability are shared by bridge engineers from different countries. This special issue of Bridge Structures presents a number of selected papers that were presented at the Fifth New York City Bridge Conference, held on August 17–18, 2009. These papers provide invaluable contributions to the state-of-the-art in bridge engineering. The issue leads off with off with a paper by Hopwood et al. ‘‘Addressing SCC-susceptible ASTM A514 steel on the I-275 twin bridges over the Ohio River’’. Failure analyses of cracked splice plates made from ASTM A514 quenched and tempered steel revealed that the steel

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