The Science of a Bridge Collapse

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Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Consultants C C Fu Director and Research Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland Marla Conn ReadAbility Inc Editorial direction Red Line Editorial Book design and illustration Design Lab Photo Credits Shutterstock Images cover 1 9 left 13 18 US Coast Guard 5 Alex Ghidan Shutterstock Images 9 right Fernando Blanco Calzada Shutterstock Images 10 AP Images 15 Paul Sakuma AP Images 17 Robert A Mansker Shutterstock Images 21 Weaver Tripp St Petersburg Times AP Images 27 Delmas Lehman 28 Copyright 2015 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bethea Nikole Brooks author The science of a bridge collapse by Nikole Brooks Bethea pages cm Disaster science Audience Age 11 Audience Grades 4 to 6 Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-63137-623-8 hardcover ISBN 978-1-63137-668-9 pbk ISBN 978-1-63137-713-6 pdf ebook ISBN 978-1-63137-758-7 hosted ebook 1 Bridge failures Juvenile literature 2 Bridges Accidents Juvenile literature I Title TG470 B45 2015 624 2 dc23 2014004029 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Please visit www p21 org for more information Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics Inc July 2014 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nikole Brooks Bethea is a professional engineer and a writer She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Florida She lives in the Florida Panhandle with her husband and four sons