Failures Websites

Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.

Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.

Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896.

Long Sault Rapids Bridge, 1898. Collapse of steel framed rail bridge. Description of events and photographs.

The Encyclopedia of Chicago provides an illustrated article on the collapse of an iron bridge in Chicago in 1863, and on the fate of other bridges built subsequently.

Information from Wikipedia on the collapse of a steel framed bridge in Pennsylvania in 1996, owing to scour and ice damage.

Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs.

Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong.

Chronicle of the 1998 collapse of a small suspension bridge in Trinidad, West Indies. Includes a history of the bridge, a summary of events, and before and after photographs.