Taipei Times
Date: Oct 02, 2019
By: Cheng Wei-chi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Yesterday’s collapse of the Nanfangao Bridge (南方澳橋) in Yilan County might have been due to rusted
The Nanfangao Bridge in Yilan County’s Suao Township is pictured after the bridge collapsed yesterday morning.
Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
Video footage showed that the vertical cable at the center of the bridge’s steel arch was the first to snap, Sung said.
However, the bridge is suspended by 10 or more steel cables and theoretically, the other cables should have been capable of evenly distributing the weight the broken cable had borne, he said.
However, it looks like the snapping of the vertical cable caused a domino effect, Sung said.
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