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The document discusses several common causes of bridge construction failures including overstressing bolts during tightening, unstable scaffolding or formwork, and overloading. Special considerations are needed for curved or skewed bridges regarding support uplift, achieving the proper camber, and limiting differential deflections between girders during erection. Foundation scour, soil erosion, corrosion, earthquakes, excessive loads, high winds, ship collisions, and fires are outlined as additional failure causes. A survey after a 2005 Pakistan earthquake revealed deficiencies in construction practices and the need to improve bridge design standards to minimize seismic damage.

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Mohiuddin Ali

The document discusses several common causes of bridge construction failures including overstressing bolts during tightening, unstable scaffolding or formwork, and overloading. Special considerations are needed for curved or skewed bridges regarding support uplift, achieving the proper camber, and limiting differential deflections between girders during erection. Foundation scour, soil erosion, corrosion, earthquakes, excessive loads, high winds, ship collisions, and fires are outlined as additional failure causes. A survey after a 2005 Pakistan earthquake revealed deficiencies in construction practices and the need to improve bridge design standards to minimize seismic damage.

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Mohiuddin Ali 

Khan
(https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-407224-4.00010-1)
15 August 2014.

Failure of connections: Overstress from bolt tightening, failure


of formwork, local buckling of scaffolding, crane collapse, and
overload are some of the causes.

The stability of girders during stage construction and the deck


placement sequence need to be investigated and temporary
bracing provided.

Expansion bearings need to be temporarily restrained during


erection.

Some flexibility in selecting bolt splice locations may be


permitted with the approval of the designer.

Curved and skew bridges require special considerations, such as


uplift at supports, achieving cambers, and reducing differential
deflections between girders during erection.

A.E.Schultz

A.J.Gastineau

(https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800058-8.00031-1)
13 November 2015, Version of Record 13 November 2015.

We present failures during construction


Failures due to design flaws, material inadequacy, overloading, and
maintenance are outlined.
The third part describes failures due to extreme loading such as seismic-
induced failures, ship strikes, and fire-induced failures.
Mohiuddin Ali Khan
(https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-407224-4.00006-X)
15 August 2014.

Foundation scour and soil erosion: Examples are bridge failures


such as the collapse of Ovilla Road Bridge over a flooded creek
in Ovilla, Ellis County, Texas and Route 46 Peckman’s River
Bridge after Hurricane Floyd in New Jersey. The Peckman’s
Bridge replacement was designed by the author.

Corrosion of steel girders concrete deck and deck concrete


cracking: An example is the I-95 curved girder bridge.
Earthquake: Bridge failures in California.
Overload and excessive magnitude of live load: Numerous older
bridges.
Excessive wind on suspension bridges without deck stiffening:
Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Collision from trucks due to limited vertical under clearance: An
example is the North Jersey Bridge.
Collision from ships due to fog and heavy rain: An example is
collapse of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida.
Fire: An example is the I-95 Bridge in northesast Philadelphia
due to the burning of tires below.
A Survey of Damages to Bridges in
Pakistan after the Major Earthquake of 8
October 2005 
Syed M. Ali;

Akhtar N. Khan;

Shahzad Rahman;

Andrei M. Reinhorn, M.EERI

https://doi.org/10.1193/1.3650477

Earthquake Spectra (2011) 27 (4): 947–970.

The survey revealed some of the deficiencies of the construction practices in Pakistan
and also highlighted the need for improvement to the country's current bridge design
practices.
This paper reports the prominent types of failures observed and discusses the
deficiencies in current design practices.
Based on the findings of the survey, various recommendations are made, with the
objective of minimizing earthquake-associated damages to new and existing bridges in
areas with a high seismic risk.

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