Talk:King Street Bridge (Melbourne)

Name of bridge
This bridge is known in many sources as the Kings Bridge, e.g. in Melway. What's the source of the "official" name used for this article? - Bricks J. Winzer (talk) 04:19, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

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Failure of the Bridge
THe failure of the bridge was due to hydrogen embrittlement and poor design which resulted in hydrogen cracking. The cracks were likely to have happened either as the semi passed over or shortly before the semi passed over it. Therefore, there wasn't a possibility that the inspector would have caught it. Also being a partial penetration weld, it could not have been reasonably non destructively tested if the crack were there. By the time the cracks appeared at the surface, the connections failed and the bridge collapsed. The fabricator is familiar with welding structural steel and almost all structural steel is low alloy steel and somewhat higher in carbon than mild steel. Hydrogen mitigation which is needed for welding higher carbon steel is not decided to be used by the fabricator or the welder but the person who comes up with the welding procedure which is likely a professional engineer. This was a failure mostly however by the engineer who designed the connection of the doubler plate. The doubler plate needed to be welded only on 3 sides but it was welded on 4 which greatly reduces the fatigue strength when compared to 3 sides. Hydrogen mitigation would not have been needed had the connection been properly designed. There were three solutions to this. The easiest was to just use a thicker flanged I beam, the second easiest was to have used a 3 sided weld, the hardest would have been to pre-heat the weld and enact strict quality control measures such as having a third party or supervisor hand over a few "baked" rods at a time to ensure the electrodes were properly heated prior to use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heretical NBK (talk • contribs) 02:53, 11 July 2018 (UTC)