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These bearings have to allow for the fact that the bridge is

Engineering Catastrophes

These bearings have to allowfor the fact that the bridge is going to get longer and...

Engineering Catastrophes • S06E07 • 2018

These bearings have to allow
for the fact that the bridge is going to get longer and shorter,
depending on the temperature, as well as 80,000-pound trucks
driving over it, which are gonna cause other
rotations, deflections, and all sorts of loads

Full Transcript

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These bearings have to allow for the fact that the bridge is

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going to get longer and shorter, depending on the temperature, as

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well as 80,000-pound trucks driving over it,

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which are gonna cause other rotations, deflections,

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and all sorts of loads.

Duration

14 seconds

Views

11

Timestamp in Movie

00:19:46

Uploaded

Oct 28, 2025

Season

6

Episode

7

Genres

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Movie Summary

With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.