Caltrans bridge engineer Brian Maroney explains how a section of a Bay Bridge steel anchor rod could rust and crack.
Caltrans has uncovered evidence that one of the 25-foot-long rods that anchor the new Bay Bridge eastern span’s tower may have snapped after being installed, a finding that could cast doubt on hundreds of other rods exposed to corrosion-causing water for two years before a construction defect was discovered.
via Anchor rod on Bay Bridge may have snapped – San Francisco Chronicle.