ENGLISH BRIDGES
TEST OF STRENGTH EXPERIMENTS IN PROGRESS DELIBERATE OVERLOADING By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August J4, 0.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, August 13 In order to gain data on the weight-carrying capacity of certain types of bridges, wjhich have been standing for many years, selected bridges scheduled for demolition are being deliberately broken by overloading. The experiments are being made in the presence of officials of the Ministry of Transport and experts from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and of the Building Research Station. The first experiment took place to-day near Derby, and others will follow in Birmingham and Essexg An ingenious mechanism has been devised for recording the gradual distortion of the bridges under strain up to the breaking point.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22498, 15 August 1936, Page 13
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