Bridge Case Studies Samples For Students

Introduction

On the Mother’s Day of 2001, a murder incident occurred at a place called Antietam Creek. The body was found lying lifeless in the bushes of the creek. There was evidence to show that this was purely a murder incident because the manner in which the body of a young man was lying on the ground and also its condition was suggestive as such. At the bottom of a steep hill lay the body, with a pool of blood and evidence of some tussle on the ground. This showed that the young man must have struggled with his assailants before they succeeded in killing ...

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Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster of 1980 – An Engineering Failure

Highway bridges on navigable waterways are at risk from vessel collision. Since they are primarily built to let vessels pass through, design considerations should include the probability of a major collision of its structural members from a passing vessel. There are several factors why vessels may come in contact with a bridge’s structural member. The deviation of a vessel from its path may be caused either by human error, mechanical error or may result because of adverse environmental conditions. Indeed, the collision of M/V Summit Venture with the pier of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was due to poor vision because of a “ ...

The use of computer design tools such as computer-aided design has been extensively utilized in the design of electronic devices because of its ability to create, modify, analyze and optimize the design and manufacturing process. Electronic design automation tools, for instance, utilizes vector based graphics and taster graphics to display the overall look of designed objects such as microprocessor chips. These tools are found on all major platforms such as Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS and are used to design and estimate the dimension of devices. In addition, they perform graphic and computational intensive tasks that could not ...

Rail construction is a sequence of steps that takes laborious amounts of time in each step and finally results in a wonderful and safe system for transport for many decades to come that requires minimal maintenance over that period. The first step in the construction process is the approval for new line itself. This is typically the responsibility of the government to do it. Once a approval is given for rail connectivity between two points then the role of engineering kicks in.
The first step in the process is the alignment. Alignment is nothing but the path in which the track ...

Abstract

Wayne Bertram Williams was an American national living in Atlanta, Georgia was who was suspected of killing two men as well as 28 to 30 other murders in the city. Many of the bodies he is suspected of killing were dumped by the roadside. The killer was meticulous and did not leave any evidence but for some fibers on the bodies of the victims. Wayne Bertram Williams was arrested on the James Jackson Parkway Bridge of the Chattahoochee River where the bodies were being dumped after the police heard a splash in the river. The prosecution of Wayne Bertram ...

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. V. Federal Commission
[United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 515 F3d 447 (2008)]
FACTS: The Chicago Bridge and Iron Company and its United States subsidiary, Chicago Bridge and Iron Company (Petitioner) is a company that was engaged in designing, engineering, and constructing industrial storage tanks for liquefied natural gas and other gases. In this market the Petitioner and another company, Pitt-Des Moines, Inc., were the dominant firms. The Petitioner acquired all the assets belonging to Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. in the year 2001 for 84 million dollars. The Respondent preferred charges against the Petitioner ...

There are two hypotheses on the migration of early humans in the New World or the Americas. These two hypotheses are the Land Route: Ice-Free Corridor and the Coastal Route hypothesis. According to the theory of Land Route Theory, humans migrated from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that were exposed before the start of the Ice Age. It was around 22 to 25 thousand years ago that humans crossed the Bering land where it served as a link to the New World. On the other hand, the Coastal Route hypothesis suggests that humans from East Asia must have traveled ...

Answer 1

When a material is applied a force on, stress develops on the material. This in turn leads to the deformation of the material. Engineering strain can be defined as the measure of deformation of the element in the direction of the applied force divided by the original length of the material. If the stress is lesser in amount, the material will only deform upto a very small measure and it will come back to its actual size after the loading is removed. In terms of engineering stress and strain parameters, we make the use of undeformed and actual cross sectional area of ...

Description of Nasra’s condition

Nasra, aged six, is a girl of Indian descent and the first born in a family four. Her only brother, Patel is aged four and has had a normal growth devoid of any serious health conditions. Patel helped me to draw out comparisons that established Nasra’s condition. When Nasra neared, I noticed some odd-looking features on her flawless face. She had a broad flat nasal bridge and an exceptionally high forehead. Her eyes were widely spaced and noticeably protruding and she also has a downward mouth. Her head and chin were also smaller than normal. When I enquired ...

Introduction

This report will analyze the scope, prospects and challenges of Venice as a tourist destination in the 21st century and beyond. Venice, a city in Italy has been chosen for this report mainly because of its great historic and cultural importance in the eyes of tourists due to its symbolic museums, churches, architecture, recreational spots, scenic beauty, historic buildings, canals, bridges, etc. Moreover, this city has also been chosen for this report due to availability of various research journals and reports on Venice. The tourism mix of the city will give an insight into the seven P’s that dominate the ...

Introduction

In today's world business connectivity is crucial. In an organization, where computers and, hence, users connect through networking, there is better productivity and is able to make decisions much more quickly and reliable. These benefits are achieved through connectivity and sharing of information and resource. Users are able to communicate and use instant mails by connecting to the network. They can also share files. Also, through networking, it is possible to share hardware resources such as Hard Drives and Printer which makes use of resource much more efficient. In many organizations, computers connected through network also share a single connection, ...