I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse Resources

• NTSB Determines Inadequate Load Capacity Due to Design Errors of Gusset Plates Caused I-35W Bridge to Collapse
• Gray Plant Mooty Investigative report to Joint Committee to Investigate the I-35W Bridge Collapse
• NTSB Docket: I-35W Bridge Collapse Investigation
• I-35W Bridge Collapse and Response - Technical Report by the United States Fire Administration on the collapse and response.
  
• I-35W Bridge Collapse By John Weeks
• I-35W Bridge Rebuild
• I-35W Bridge Photographs
• I-35W Bridge Collapse - MPR
• Economic Impacts of the I-35W Bridge Collapse
• The End of the Road: Challenges of Funding Minnesota's Local Road and Bridge Network
• ASCE 35W Bridge Collapse
• Minnesota Historical Society, Video of bridge construction and other resources
• I-35W & Mississippi River Bridge anti-icing project : Operational Evaluation Report / Cory Johnson. [Roseville, Minn.] : Minnesota Dept. of Transportation, Office of Metro Maintenance Operations, 2001.
  Mn/DOT Library Main Collection - MNDOT TG304 .J65 2001
  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/maintenance/Anti-icing%20evaluation.pdf
• I-35W Mississippi River bridge (Wikipedia)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
• Fracture Critical & Non-Fracture Critical Bridge Inspection 2003 Inspection Schedule
  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/maintenance/2003FCIn.pdf
• Metro District Transportation System Plan TSP: Helping Minnesota travel safer, smarter, and more efficiently, 2008-2030
  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/tsp/pdfs/final_2008_2030_tsp.pdf

Additional reports have been posted to MN/DOT's Website: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/i35wbridge/index.html

Inspection reports and studies

• Fracture critical bridge inspection - In depth report, June 2006 (595kb PDF) Includes comments from 2005 and earlier reports
• Fracture critical bridge inspection - In depth report, June 2005 (PDF)
• MN/DOT Bridge Inspection Report, 2006 (53kb PDF)
• MN/DOT Bridge Inspection Report, 2005 (59kb PDF)
• Fatigue Evaluation and Redundancy Analysis, July 2006, URS
  Part 1 (13,974kb PDF)
  Part 2 (9,436kb PDF)
  Part 3 (12,491kb PDF)
  
• University of Minnesota Study: Fatigue Evaluation of the Deck Truss of Bridge 9340, March 2001 (3,247kb PDF)

Inventory reports and lists

• MN/DOT Structure Inventory Report (70kb PDF)
• FHWA Deficient Bridge List (223kb PDF)
• National Bridge Inventory
  

U.S. DOT

• I-35 Bridge Collapse

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