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  2. Bailey Island Bridge - Wikipedia

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    In 2009 and 2010, the bridge underwent reconstruction to repair cracked or sheared stones. [5] During the repairs, a 1,000-foot-long (300 m) temporary bridge was placed alongside the cribstone bridge so that traffic could continue without disruption.

  3. List of bridge failures - Wikipedia

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    Cast iron beams cracked and failed 2 killed Total damage to floor Wootton Bridge crash, caused by a flawed design & unreliable cast iron, failed from a repair Platte Bridge: St. Joseph, Missouri: United States 3 September 1861: Sabotage by Confederate partisans during US Civil War. 17–20 killed, 100 injured Chunky Creek Bridge: near Hickory ...

  4. Concrete degradation - Wikipedia

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    Example of flat piece of concrete having dislodged with corroded rebar underneath, Welland River bridge across Queen Elizabeth Way in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The expansion of the corrosion products (iron oxides) of carbon steel reinforcement structures may induce internal mechanical stress (tensile stress) that cause the formation of cracks and disrupt the concrete structure.

  5. Foundation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Foundation with pipe fixtures coming through the sleeves. In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground. Foundations are generally considered either shallow or deep. [1]

  6. Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge is a 466.5-foot (142.2 m) steel truss bridge with two 232-foot (71 m) spans. A form of a Baltimore truss, the bridge contains a 2-by-4-inch (0.051 m × 0.102 m) wooden deck with steel stringers that support the deck.

  7. Surgeon sawed into woman’s femur to repair it but left a ...

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    The gap he left couldn’t heal on its own, requiring an additional surgery, the lawsuit says.

  8. Self-healing concrete - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Romans used a type of lime mortar that has been found to be self-healing. [8] The stratlingite crystals form along the interfacial zones of Roman concrete, binding the aggregate and mortar together and this process continued even after 2000 years and it was discovered by the geologist Marie Jackson and her colleagues in 2014.

  9. Central Maine & Quebec Railway - Wikipedia

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    Locomotive. The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (reporting mark MMA), itself a product of the 2002 Iron Road Railways bankruptcy, filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Canada on August 7, 2013, following the fiery Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, in which a runaway crude oil train killed forty-seven people and caused an estimated $200 million in property damage to downtown Lac ...