{"id":264968,"date":"2019-03-18T06:57:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264968"},"modified":"2019-03-18T06:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:57:45","slug":"bitumen-peel-off-to-save-bridge-in-calcutta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bitumen-peel-off-to-save-bridge-in-calcutta\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitumen peel-off to save bridge in Calcutta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Layers of bitumen will be scraped off the surface of Tallah bridge after a preliminary survey by the PWD revealed that they may be compromising on the load-bearing capacity of the structure.<\/p>\n<p>Patchwork repair, which involves piling a layer of bitumen, is common on city roads.<\/p>\n<p>When Majerhat bridge collapsed on September 4 last year, a report by Devendra Narain Singh, the institute chair professor with the civil engineering department, geo-technical engineering division of IIT Bombay, had revealed that the bituminous coating on the bridge had more than trebled over half a century, the additional weight possibly proving too much for the bridge to bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Layers of bitumen will be scraped off the surface of Tallah bridge after a preliminary survey by the PWD revealed that they may be compromising on the load-bearing capacity of the structure. Patchwork repair, which involves piling a layer of bitumen, is common on city roads. When Majerhat bridge collapsed on September 4 last year, a report by Devendra Narain Singh, the institute chair professor with the civil engineering department, geo-technical engineering division of IIT Bombay, had revealed that the bituminous coating on the bridge had more than trebled over half a century, the additional weight possibly proving too much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}