{"id":5380,"date":"2009-09-09T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2009-09-09T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T17:00:16","slug":"golden-gatekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5380","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gatekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco Bay Bridge is closed while engineers fix a cracked “eyebar” – a structural member that transfers weight to the main supports.<\/p>\n

Here’s hopeing they do a good job of it.<\/p>\n

Or at least, let’s hope they do a better job than the reporters who are writing about it<\/a>.\u00a0 Because since the 35W River Bridge collapsed, it seems everyone<\/a> <\/em>is a structural engineer.<\/p>\n

Eyebars are known to suffer from fatigue cracks.<\/p>\n

The same design was used in the Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis,<\/font><\/a> which collapsed in 2007 and killed five people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, maybe in the same sense that both bridges had roads running over them.\u00a0 The 35W bridge was a conventional arch-truss bridge with, to the best of my knowledge, no eyebars; the Bay Bridge is a combination of trusses and a suspension bridge.\u00a0 Completely different structures.<\/p>\n

But other than that<\/em>…<\/p>\n

And while normally I’d point out that the collapse killed thirteen <\/em>people, I’m assuming the other eight disappeared due to California’s taxing and spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco Bay Bridge is closed while engineers fix a cracked “eyebar” – a structural member that transfers weight to the main supports. Here’s hopeing they do a good job of it. Or at least, let’s hope they do a better job than the reporters who are writing about it.\u00a0 Because since the 35W […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}