Lawsuit: Post-Tensioning Triggered Bridge Failure

摘要

Federal investigators have warehoused the shattered sections of the pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto a busy road at Florida International University March 15 in Sweetwater, Fla., outside Miami, and reopened the road to traffic. The latest clues about the cause of the accident that killed five motorists and a worker came in lawsuits that suggest that post-tensioning triggered the failure that brought down the structure.