Talk:Nicoll Highway collapse

removal
I removed the following from the main article to this talk page. It was poorly written and totally unreferenced. Mdanh2002 (talk) 12:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC) {{quote|1=

Accident Causes
Recent investigations by MIT show that the main reason of the sudden collapse was the misinterpreted local geology and overestimated soil shear strength in its analysis. The structure was therefore underdesigned to resist lateral earth pressures, on clay with very poorly features.

From the structural point of view, was observed also errors in detailing the structural connections for the structural bracing system; the collapse then occurred when the lower level of bracing was overloaded and there was inadequate capacity to redistribute the loads among the remaining supports. Although large wall deflections occurred during the excavation, the measured strut loads were smaller than expected. As a result, the project engineers were apparently unaware of the potential for a catastrophic failure, showing the importance of a good planning and design stages in great social projects. }}