Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Corrosion found inside the 520 Bridge pontoons



"Local news station finds corrosion in" random piece of infrastructure isn't exactly the hardest news story to go about finding. It involves checking any bridge, overpass, train tunnel, subway car, or...well...anything made of metal at all, pretty much.

It's just the natural order of things. Metals are just ceramic wannabes.


This article is interesting in that it's a floating bridge in Seattle, WA, and its supports...

from Wikimedia
...that get churning water and weather like this...

from wsdot - check out the waves just on the South side of the bridge

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