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We were able to I think show the cause, show the effect, that the frozen expander joint – I’m losing the name – but that bridge was designed to move and it was a geared movement and it was to move the bridge, you know, several feet depending on whether it was hot or whether it was cold. Well it was horribly hot. I think the ambient temperate was something like 107 on one side of the bridge, but the bridge was frozen and it couldn’t move, which created enough pressure to cause the critical members to fail. And it failed in a particular way and the engineers at Thorton Tomasetti were doing the structural work on the new stadium figured out how to computer model – they did the same thing for the bombing of the World Trade Center, show how the buildings collapsed so that they could make better buildings next time and that sort of thing. But it was very interested. I hadn’t done mathematics in the Greek alphabet in about 30 years and I had to learn again. So helpful to have engineers to teach me.
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Minneapolis attorney Robert Bennett discusses what the investigation of the 35W bridge revealed.