General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Chain suspension bridge |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Support conditions: |
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| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA Kanauga, Gallia County, Ohio, USA |
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| Crossed: |
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| Replaced by: |
Silver Memorial Bridge (1969)
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| Coordinates: | 38° 50' 42" N 82° 8' 28" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 213.5 m | |
| total length | 681.2 m |
Materials
| cables |
steel eye-bars
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|---|---|
| towers |
steel
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| truss |
steel
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Chronology
| 31 December 1951 | Tolls cease. |
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| 15 December 1967 | Without warning the bridge collapses causing the death of 46 persons. A study finds fatigue failure in the eye bar connections as cause of the accident. |
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- : The Collapse of the Silver Bridge. In: West Virginia Historicy Society Quarterly, v. XV, n. 4, 10/2001.
- (1929): An Eye-bar Suspension span for the Ohio River. In: Engineering News Record (June 1929), pp. 997-1001.
- (2017): From Disaster to Prevention: The Silver Bridge. In: Civil Engineering Magazine, v. 87, n. 11 (December 2017), pp. 44-47.
- (1984): Great American Bridges and Dams. A National Trust Guide. John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA), pp. 326-327.
- (2023): Point Pleasant ‘Silver’ Bridge. In: (2023): Case Studies on Failure Investigations in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Zurich (Switzerland), ISBN 978-3-85748-194-9, pp. 147-154.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20001423 - Published on:
31/03/2001 - Last updated on:
23/11/2021
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