A half-century-old Scottish bridge is slowly unraveling from the inside, one invisible wire at a time, forcing engineers into a desperate race to hear failure before it arrives. The post Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge hangs from two main cables containing 11,618 steel wires apiece, but inspectors found corrosion running all the way into their centers and an estimated 8 to 10 percent loss of strength — engineers now pump dry air through the cables while microphones listen for individual wires snapping inside appeared first on Space Daily .
Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge hangs from two main cables containing 11,618 steel wires apiece, but inspectors found corrosion running all the way into their centers and an estimated 8 to 10 percent loss of strength — engineers now pump dry air through the cables while microphones listen for individual wires snapping inside
