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Comment Concrete truss construction (Score 1) 138

I think that there is a good reason why concrete truss bridges of this type are rare. The connections are fundamentally difficult to analyse correctly, although the member forces can be simply calculated by hand in a few minutes. I believe that an over-reliance on computer generated outputs may be an underlying cause of this failure. And a desire for "innovation" without wanting to pay the price in terms of thorough design reviews.

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