By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Contra Costa Times
Updated: 06/25/2013 05:51:10 AM PDT
OAKLAND — Caltrans has released 15 volumes and hundreds of pages of inspection and test data on thousands of high-strength steel fasteners installed on the eastern replacement span of the Bay Bridge.
The documents are part of the ongoing probe into why 32 out of 96 very large high-strength anchor rods snapped on the span in March, and whether the remaining 2,210 fasteners made out of the same grade of steel are vulnerable, too.
The three agencies overseeing the $6.4 billion bridge construction project — Caltrans, Bay Area Toll Authority and California Transportation Commission — have commissioned extensive testing of all the steel. (…)
via Bay Bridge: Caltrans releases hundreds more bolt documents – San Jose Mercury News.