https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/norwegian-steel-truss-rail-bridge-as-storm-hans-wreaks-havoc-for-nation-16-08-2023/ Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif https://www.newcivilengineer.com 125 75 Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/norwegian-steel-truss-rail-bridge-as-storm-hans-wreaks-havoc-for-nation-16-08-2023/#comment-4378 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:25:08 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=265942#comment-4378 I don’t doubt that this collapse was caused by scour failure. But why pin the cause of that on to climate change? The bridge that collapsed was built as recently as 1957. The earlier bridge – originally a rail bridge, converted to a road bridge when the newer one was in operation – was built in 1895. Yet the newer one has collapsed, not the older. If climate change alone was responsible you’d expect the older one to be more affected. I think something else is going on here, perhaps the design of the foundations. Have we forgotten something in the intervening 60 years?

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