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Engineer: High winds a credible -- but shocking -- explanation for Bay Bridge failure

SF Weekly

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/10/engineer_high_winds_a_credible.php

Oct 28, 2009

Jack Moehle -- a UC Berkeley engineering professor and one of the Bay Area's acknowledged experts on freeway and bridge failure -- said that Caltrans' initial claims that high winds contributed to yesterday's rupture on the Bay Bridge is "a credible explanation." Still, he's taken aback that the failure occurred just weeks after the installation of the parts in question.