Re: Fancy new bridge has broken.

On Jan 15, 2:56 am, NotMe <mee.not...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7188577.stm
>
> > The Clyde Arc bridge in the centre of Glasgow has been closed after one of the support cables failed.
>
> > People nearby reported hearing a loud "snap" and part of the cable landed on the carriageway of the bridge, which joins Finnieston with Kinning Park.
>
> Cables on bridges like this one should not just snap, especially when
> the bridge is only about two years old.
> If one cable has snapped, then other cables supporting the bridge
> could also be weak, and also snap. The cables designed to support this
> bridge should have been able to handle a far greater tension than is
> expected of them.
>
> More importantly though, the snapping of one cable puts a lot more
> tension in adjacent cables, increasing the chances of them snapping.
> The missing cable could also bend the bridge out of shape, possibly
> weakening it. (If you have seen a bike wheel with a broken spoke you
> will know what I mean).
>
> I think this bridge will be out of use for quite some time. (A minimum
> of four months, and easily possible more than a year).

Someone was telling me this morning that it wasn't the cable that
snapped but the connection between the cable and the bridge.

As to whether that makes it more or less serious I've no idea.

Fod