Squinty Bridge Closed

[onyirtodd]

::): ::): True!

It has also been said, by a man who has a way with words (and a bit of a gift for a tune), that "One has a castle, the other a heart".

[Lucky Poet]

And one got half demolished for a motorway-a-runnin' through it

(Come on, man, gie's a break; you're making me incriminate myself here!)

[onyirtodd]

And one got half demolished for a motorway-a-runnin' through it

Nah. Ye can take away the houses; the homes are still there.

[Lucky Poet]

Mmm. Very good. And what's left if you take away the platitudes?

(Please mind, I'm not of Edinburgh)

[onyirtodd]

Mmm. Very good. And what's left if you take away the platitudes?

(Please mind, I'm not of Edinburgh)

Duck!!!!! Here comes the bill.

[Lucky Poet]

[deevlash]

Hey ho! While we all wait to see what happens with the Squinty Bridge, here's its slightly older and rather smaller sibling, in case any of you haven't seen it. It crosses the A8 at glamorous, happening Gogarburn, and unusually it hasn't had anything fall off yet (touch wood). Gotta love the stinking great corporate logo on it too. It's always struck me as being a dry run for the big one though, and I dare say some wee structural engineers were running back and forth here when the muckle great Glasgow version went pop...


Hope you like. It was either this or post some nice pictures of a kitten.

they were both designed by the same company, Im not sure if the same companies were involved in building them though.

[Lucky Poet]

they were both designed by the same company

It'd figure. I naturally thought of this Gogarburn thing when the Squinty Bridge appeared some months later (I dimly remember the basic design being mentioned somewhere, and I'm sure its type's got some technical name). I must say the photos I've seen of Glasgow's one make it seem much better than this example, which is an ill-proportioned bastard in my uneducated opinion (though it's a vast improvement on what was there before).

[scoobydoo]

they were both designed by the same company

Are you 100% sure of that as I didn't think they were?

[Flyingscot]

Hulme Bridge in Manchester. Thought it was remarkably similar to the Squinty Bridge.

[engineer]

wasn't gogarburn designed by skm or arup?

mace were the construction managers for the office complex, the bridge may have been a separate contract

[dave2]

GTogarburn was apparently a WSP & SKM job - http://www1.wspgroup.com/pdf/projects/rbos.pdf http://www.architecturescotland.co.uk/f ... sions.html http://www.skmconsulting.com/Markets/bu ... arburn.htm with Laing O-Rourke involved in the building superstructure.

[cell]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7437386.stm
Still no real explanation and what does "stress fracture" mean, shurly all fractures are due to stress!

[Mori]

evening times

The bridge will reopen at 9pm tomorrow and councillor Ruth Simpson, executive member for land and environmental services, said: "The Clyde Arc has proved extremely popular with the people of Glasgow and I am pleased we can give them back their bridge.

Oh thanks a bundle... lets see how long it lasts out this time.

[deevlash]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7437386.stm
Still no real explanation and what does "stress fracture" mean, shurly all fractures are due to stress!

stress is an engineering term, stress=F/A and is measured in MPa (mega pascals) stress cant be measured itself but is usually worked out from measurements of strain and knowledge of elastic properties of the material. There are different types of stress which could have caused the failure, such as torsional, but probably tensile in this case. The bridge could have failed due to fatigue as opposed to a stress fracture or any one of a number of reasons. The reason they dont go into this level of detail is that it confuses people who spell "surely" as "shurly".