Steel plates connecting beams in the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis were ... Investigators found 16 fractured gusset plates from the bridge’s center span. “It is the undersizing of ...

And the National Transportation Safety Board determined that it was a design flaw, and not deferred maintenance, neglect, or other problems, that caused the 35W bridge to collapse. Gusset plates ...

There is no record in MnDOT's I-35W bridge inspection reports of anyone ever fixing the out-of-plane bending on the U-10 gusset plates. One of the questions the Star Tribune posed to MnDOT was ...

WASHINGTON -- Mystified about how a simple human error occurred four decades ago, leading to the deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, federal safety ...

The 35W bridge had been rated "structurally deficient ... opened a display July 28 of one of the failed gusset plates.

The investigation was thorough. Faulty gusset plates were to blame. It led to bridge investigations across the country and the design of a new 35W bridge. Casey Skeide says she thinks of the ...

Undersized gusset plates - used to connect bridge beams - were discovered at eight of 112 joints on the main trusses of the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis last year ...

Undersized gusset plates - used to connect bridge beams - were discovered at eight of 112 joints on the main trusses of the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis last year ...

Minneapolis — An engineering firm hired to evaluate the Interstate 35W bridge before it collapsed in 2007 ... investigators cited as a major factor in the collapse. The gusset plates on the bridge ...

only a week after the I-35W Bridge fell, that a possible design flaw in the bridge's gusset plates caused the collapse. Months later, NTSB Chairman Rosenker appeared at a press conference.

The National Transportation Safety Board identified the cause as gusset plates that were too thin under the weight of the bridge, its traffic, and construction at the time. An I-35W Bridge ...

The thickness of gusset plates used in the bridge varied between ... that overpowered gusset plates in crucial locations. The I-35W bridge was designed to flex, to handle expansion and contraction ...