Because the deck truss portion of the I-35W bridge was considered nonload-path-redundant, the total collapse of the deck truss was unavoidable once the gusset plates at the U10 nodes failed.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators probing the Aug. 1 collapse of an Interstate highway bridge in Minneapolis have found that some of the gusset plates in the bridge's main trusses ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark V. Rosenker said the Interstate 35W bridge had been built with gusset plates -- the steel parts that connect the girders, which support the ...

A buckled steel plate may be all it takes to bring down a 40-year-old structure like the Minneapolis I-35W bridge, which collapsed suddenly on Aug. 1 and killed 13 people. Forensic engineers ...

Steel plates connecting beams in the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis were too thin by half and fractured, “the critical factor” in the collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145, the ...

The investigators blamed the design firm of Sverdrup & Parcel for not calculating the proper size needed for the gussets when the bridge was designed in 1963. The plates were only half the ...

WINONA, Minn. - Minnesota Department of Transportation inspectors failed to notice the severity of corroded gusset plates on the Interstate Bridge in two inspections during the past 14 months because ...

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WASHINGTON — A newly released report by the National Transportation Safety Board shows that a pair of gusset plates on the Interstate 35W bridge broke at least partially along lines of corrosion ...

The "most historical pieces" that failed and led to the Interstate 35W bridge collapsing in a deadly heap into the Mississippi River six years ago were turned over Thursday to the Minnesota ...