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Collapse of U.S. 35 Highway Bridge, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, December 15, 1967 (HAR-71/01)

National Transportation Safety Board · 1970-12-16 · 202 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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FIGURE NUMBER LEGEND PAGE NUMBER 11 Micro-Probe Evidence of Sulfur (a) Freshly exposed steel surface (b) Near lip of pre-existent crack 38 12 Cleavage Fracture in Hanger U17 - C17 N (a) Normal view showing paint in upper left and longitudinal crack in center (b) Oblique view showing evidence of torsion 41 13 Cleavage Fracture in Chord L12 - L13 N (a) Crack origin at rivet hole (b) Reflective specks in south channel 43 14 Rivet Fractures in Hanger Connection at U13 N 44 15 Eyebars with Gage Locations and Initial Cut Lines 48 16 Circumferential Stress Contours for Initial Cuts, Specimen B-17 49 17 Radial Stress Produced by Layer Removal, Specimen B-17 50 18 Fracture Toughness Test Arrangement for 0°F Temperature 51 19 Specimen Configuration with Strain-Gage Locations for Full-Scale Fracture Test 53 20a Room-Temperature Fatigue-Crack-Propagation Rates for Eyebars Material 55 20b Effect of Temperature and Environment on the Fatigue-Crack-Propagation Rates for Eyebars Material 56 21 Test Setup for Wedge-Force Loaded Specimens under Environmental Conditions 59 22 Microprobe Area Scans at Site A 61 23 The Effect of Strain Rate on the Three-Point Bend Properties of A-7 Steel Charpy V-Notch Specimens 63 24a Appearance of Freshly Opened Crack in Eyebars Steel 67 24b Fracture Regions in Freshly Opened Crack in Eyebars Steel 67 25 Appearance of Branch and Secondary Cracks Associated with Fracture in Eyebars No. 330 69 - v -

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