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Table 3.6 History of failures during construction (constructability issues) (continued).
German Bridges Location Year Details
Motorway bridge Near Frankenthal 1940 Failure of lifting equipment during construction

Hindenburg bridge over Cologne 1945 Collapse during refurbishment
Rhine River
Motorway composite bridge Near Kaiserslautern 1954 Insuffi cient stiffness of top members about weak axis
—construction failure
Nordbrücke bridge over Düsseldorf 1956 Insuffi cient crane capacity to carry double load—
Rhine River construction failure
Continuous motorway bridge Near Limburg 1961 Settlement of temporary foundations, load redistribution,
scaffolding collapse—construction failure

Heidingsfeld motorway Heidingsfeld 1963 Temporary concrete support plates underdesigned—
composite bridge construction failure
Vorland Rees-Kalkar plate Between Rees and Kalkar 1966 Temporary supports underdesigned—construction failure
girder bridge
Bridge near Wennigsen, Near Wennigsen, 1971 Scaffolding collapsed under weight of fresh concrete
Niedersachsen Niedersachsen —construction failure
Steel box girder bridge over Koblenz 1971 Plate buckling of bottom chord in compression—
Rhine River cantilevered construction failure

Continuous Hangbrücke over Near Koblenz 1972 Scaffolding collapsed under weight of fresh concrete
Laubachtal —construction failure

Steel box girder bridge Zeulenroda 1973 Plate buckling of bottom chord—cantilevered
construction failure

Bridge over Leubas River Near Kempten 1974 Scaffolding collapses under weight of fresh concrete
—construction failure

Brohltal bridge, segmental Brohltal 1974 Incremental launch construction led to concrete crushing
construction when low prestressing cable positions are over support,
settlements
Timber truss Bad Cannstatt 1977 Construction sequence not thought out—
construction failure
13-span Rottachtal bridge Near Oy 1979 Incremental launch, large cracks, inversed position of
gliding plate (top/bottom)—construction failure
Bridge near Dedensen Near Dedensen 1982 Lateral buckling of construction support girder during
removing of lateral supports
Simple span, steel truss bridge Road bridge 1982 Temporary support elements too weak—
construction failure

Bridge on DB Lohr-Wertheim Near Kreuzwertheim 1984 Use of uncertifi ed lifting bars and too weak bolt nuts
railway line —construction failure
Composite Czerny Bridge Heidelberg 1985 Use of wrong bolts—construction failure

New (composite) Grosshesselohe Munich 1985 Ignorance of load case “displacement of mobile
bridge scaffolding”—construction failure

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