Great article, there is a lot there, and even more when you start digging. I think my biggest concern is why CALTRANS would accept a design with such a large amount of SMAW?
Great welding is an art.
A few snippets:
Anziano said the welding problems weren’t that severe. “We had millions of welds on the work over in China,” he said in an interview. “The vast majority went very well.”
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Caltrans even put up a half-million dollars for ZPMC to better train welders, but the workers did not show up for the classes.
I can foresee a hundred years of crack repair on this bridge.