T110's Second Summer of Love (And Tolerance)

DerViktim, on May 09 2014 - 23:58, said:  Depending on the load on the bridge deck a suspension bridge could stay up with a failed main support cable. Because of the failure of the Tacoma narrows bridge in 1940 suspension bridges are built with a mostly rigid bridge deck. Depending on the load on the deck it would warp and eventually collapse, but it could stay up for a while. Those bridges are massively over engineered. That's why the Manhattan bridges didn't collapse even though they hadn't been maintained adequately for almost 30-40 years.