CN Bridge partially collapses in southwest China, months after opening - Quality Chinese Engineering

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BEIJING, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Part of a recently opened bridge collapsed in China's southwestern province of Sichuan along a national highway linking the country's heartland with Tibet on Tuesday, local authorities said, but there were no reports of casualties.

Police in the city of Maerkang had closed the 758-metre-long Hongqi bridge to all traffic on Monday afternoon, after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads, and shifts were seen in the terrain of a mountain, the local government said.

On Tuesday afternoon conditions on the mountainside worsened, triggering landslides, leading to the collapse of the approach bridge and roadbed, it added.

Construction of the bridge finished earlier this year, according to a video posted by the contractor Sichuan Road & Bridge Group on social media.

(This story has been corrected to say that worsening conditions and landslides led to the partial bridge collapse, not that the bridge collapse triggered landslides, in paragraph 3

Reporting by Xiuhao Chen, Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Andrew Heavens

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quaawaa said:
Part of a recently opened bridge collapsed in China's southwestern province of Sichuan along a national highway linking the country's heartland with Tibet on Tuesday, local authorities said, but there were no reports of casualties.
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What the bridge was made of:
 
CAPTAIN HAPPY said:
Field of corpses aint the same as an irradiated field of atomic waste.
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The Battle of Frozen Chosin was a brutal 17-day engagement in the Korean War where approximately the U.S. 1st Marine Division( 12000 to 20000 men killed 120,000+ Chinese troops in the sub-zero temperatures of North Korea,
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One thing about the Chinese, they have never had a man shortage.
 
JohnnyG said:
I also used to be of the "it's all Chinesium junk" view. The problem is, that's not incompatible with "they can build gigantic state of the art things", being a country of 1.4 billion.

When life is valued that little, or their system ensures built-in incompetence, you're going to have bridges, dams, and planes fall down at, say 10x the rate we'd find acceptable. But because they can bulldoze a gorillion regulations and pressure groups, they can build 10-20x as many, watch 3-5% of them fail, and end up with hundreds of nuke plants or trains or whatever that do work.
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It's not just little value of life, it's also propaganda. Look at how Cuba promotes their beaches and hotels for tourists as a paradise, but behind that, you see extreme poverty and kids being sexually used in exchange for bread. China shows their very specific buildings for the people to see them on awe and consider them an advanced society while what we don't see falls apart.
 
Clem Fandango said:
If that's a "partial" collapse, I'd be interested to see what qualifies for a "complete" collapse.
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bro you can see the rest of the bridge standing on the right side of the frame. Go look up the definition of "partial". And for you edification "complete" collapse means that the entire bridge (the whole thing, all of it) has fallen down.

On topic, I don't get the posts dunking on this because muh chyina. Someone screwed up but the police closed the bridge and no one was hurt. Is this really more embarrassing than, say, a cargo ship hitting a bridge in your harbor because it wasn't maintained or that huge bridge in texas (iirc) they realized was wrong half way through building it?
 
SCV said:
On topic, I don't get the posts dunking on this because muh chyina. Someone screwed up but the police closed the bridge and no one was hurt. Is this really more embarrassing than, say, a cargo ship hitting a bridge in your harbor because it wasn't maintained
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That was because of the cargo ship’s jeet crew. It wasn’t because the bridge was poorly designed, constructed, or maintained.

This is worth laughing at because it’s a massive civil engineering error to blast through a mountain with zero thought as to what will happen when it rains.
 
quaawaa said:
That was because of the cargo ship’s jeet crew. It wasn’t because the bridge was poorly designed, constructed, or maintained.
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I thought the crew being jeets was deboonked but if it's true then isn't letting jeets sail around in one gorrillion ton ships in your harbor also an embarrassment? And you don't address the texas bridge (I've rememberd it is the harbor bridge if you want to look into it). Maybe if you had some stats for per-capita bridge/infrastructure failures...
 
SCV said:
I thought the crew being jeets was deboonked but if it's true then isn't letting jeets sail around in one gorrillion ton ships in your harbor also an embarrassment? And you don't address the texas bridge (I've rememberd it is the harbor bridge if you want to look into it). Maybe if you had some stats for per-capita bridge/infrastructure failures...
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Congrats on your 100 RMB, Wumao.

Countries don’t control the crew of foreign cargo ships coming into their ports.
 
SCV said:
bro you can see the rest of the bridge standing on the right side of the frame. Go look up the definition of "partial". And for you edification "complete" collapse means that the entire bridge (the whole thing, all of it) has fallen down. On topic, I don't get the posts dunking on this because muh chyina. Someone screwed up but the police closed the bridge and no one was hurt. Is this really more embarrassing than, say, a cargo ship hitting a bridge in your harbor because it wasn't maintained or that huge bridge in texas (iirc) they realized was wrong half way through building it?
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SCV said:
bro you can see the rest of the bridge standing on the right side of the frame. Go look up the definition of "partial". And for you edification "complete" collapse means that the entire bridge (the whole thing, all of it) has fallen down.

On topic, I don't get the posts dunking on this because muh chyina. Someone screwed up but the police closed the bridge and no one was hurt. Is this really more embarrassing than, say, a cargo ship hitting a bridge in your harbor because it wasn't maintained or that huge bridge in texas (iirc) they realized was wrong half way through building it?
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Don't "bro" me cunt. Are you seriously trying to argue that what is left after that video is a "bridge"? From where? To where?

No? Then yes the bridge has completely collapsed you dumbass - there is no bridge now.

Was the Challenger disaster a "partial" failure? Wasn't it one little gasket? The shuttle had like 99.99% structural integrity, so they could limp on, right?

Oh, no it blew the fuck up.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Don't "bro" me cunt. Are you seriously trying to argue that what is left after that video is a "bridge"? From where? To where?

No? Then yes the bridge has completely collapsed you dumbass - there is no bridge now.

Was the Challenger disaster a "partial" failure? Wasn't it one little gasket? The shuttle had like 99.99% structural integrity, so they could limp on, right?

Oh, no it blew the fuck up.
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homeslice, it looks like half the bridge is still there. That is a "partial" collapse. The rest of this is retarded drivel but again for your edification: Something is not automatically "complete[ly]" destroyed when it is no longer usable. If my car had all of its tires slashed no one (except you, apparently) would say "there is no [car] now" because I cannot drive it anywhere. Further the challenger disaster was a "complete" failure. To imply that I would argue otherwise is just a transparently stupid strawman in bad faith.

quaawaa said:
Congrats on your 100 RMB, Wumao.

Countries don’t control the crew of foreign cargo ships coming into their ports.
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So the US has absolutely no say in the ships that come into their ports? And whatever country the ship is flying under is completely at fault yet they've made no restitution? That isn't embarrassing? Address the Harbor Bridge project.
 
This is a gross failure to properly do engineering evaluations on the surrounding geology touching your bridge.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Knowing this is China, it's more of a couple of Chernobyls, and they'll do their damnest to cover those incidents up, while people die from radiation sickness left and right.
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I believe a lot of the reactors planned are thorium molten salt reactors,(TMSRs) which operates at normal atmospheric pressure, and pretty much are incapable of a meltdown, because if the salt cools it solidifies and the reaction stops completely, so no runaway chain reaction.
 
I've been impressed with the infrastructure China has been producing - some of the best bridges in the world and technically exceptionally challenging. But here, it appears pretty clear the bridge was probably fine but the mountain was an oversight on enforcement of the slope. That is some crazy footage.

I know this will probably not be an isolated incident moving forward as there were other oversights in sloped surfaces for others bridges and damns they have built which will lead to contributing factors of failure down the road.
 
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