structural, regulatory and human error were factors in washington highway bridge collapse /

When an important bridge collapsed on Interstate 5 near Mount Vernon,Washington, in 2013, and questions were raised approximately how such a catastrophic failure could occur. A new analysis by a team of civil engineering faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign outlines the many factors that led to the collapse,as well as steps that transportation departments can seize to prevent such accidents on other bridges of similar design.

Source: phys.org