General Information
| Completion: | 1971 |
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| Status: | collapsed (9 May 1980) |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
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| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Support conditions: |
for registered users |
| Structure: |
main bridge: Cantilever truss bridge main bridge: Through truss bridge |
| Material: |
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| Structure: |
approach viaducts: Deck truss bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, USA Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA |
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| Crossed: |
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| Next to: |
Sunshine Skyway (1954)
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| Replaced by: |
Sunshine Skyway Bridge (1987)
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| Coordinates: | 27° 37' 9.15" N 82° 39' 27.10" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 263 m | |
| total length | 6 819 m |
Materials
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| truss |
steel
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Chronology
| 9 May 1980 | A navigational error causes a large freight ship Summit Venture to hit a bridge pier during a storm. The cantilever span of one of the superstructures collapses into Tampa Bay. Several vehicles and a Greyhound bus fall into the waters killing 35 people. |
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Participants
Structural engineering
- Hannskarl Bandel (structural engineer)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Preventing Another Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster. In: Civil Engineering Magazine, v. 52, n. 3 (March 1982), pp. 56-57.
- (1983): Ship collision against the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Presented at: IABSE Colloquium: Ship Collision with Bridges and Offshore Structures = Collision des bâteaux avec des ponts et des constructions en mer = Kollision von Schiffen mit Brücken und "Offshore"-Bauten, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1983.
- Le "Sunshine" Skyway. In: La Technique des Travaux, v. 34, n. 9-10 (September 1958), pp. 319-320.
- (1999): Tierra sobre el agua. Visión histórica universal de los puentes. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), pp. 91-92.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20003386 - Published on:
27/05/2002 - Last updated on:
24/01/2018
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