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This is the final highway accident report (NTSB-HAR-71-1) from the National Transportation Safety Board, adopted in December 1970. It covers the collapse of the U.S. 35 bridge between Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Kanauga, Ohio, on December 15, 1967, which killed 46 people. The Board found that the cause was a cleavage fracture in eyebar 330 at joint C13N. That fracture grew from a flaw produced over 40 years by stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue, in a spot that could not be seen or found by inspection.
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Tensile Properties (C9) (Standard 0.252" Diameter Specimens) Segment B21) Specimen No.2) Strain Rate to Yield Yield Strength at 0.2% Offset,ksi Tensile Strength,ksi Elongation in 1 Inch, $ Reduction of Area,$ Layer A3) 6 Normal5) 85.2 120.7 19.0 51.8 Layer B4) 14 85.2 125.8 18.0 51.8 Layer A 36 121.3 17.0 52.8 Center 44 Static 86.5 126.3 18.0 53.8 2 Static 88.9 10 Static 118.7 19.0 51.3 17 Static 118.7 19.0 50.2 21 Static 111.3 20.0 50.5 25 Static 112.7 20.0 50.8 29 Static 116.3 20.0 50.5 Layer B 32 Static 124.8 19.0 50.8 40 Static 120.8 17.0 49.0 Static 121.3 19.0 53.9
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