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The Brooklyn Bridge is located in New York City which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn. Constructed from 1870 to 1883, this bridge uses steel cables and masonry towers. How long will this bridge last?

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The Brooklyn Bridge is featured in the Life After People Documentary and in Heavy Metal.

Documentary[]

In the Documentary, the bridge is first featured in 50 years after people by Gordon Masterton as one of the most famous bridges in the world for over 125 years where strain of neglect is beginning to show on the bridge.

The documentary explain the brief history of the bridge; it was completed in 1883 and cost $15 million to build. The documentary continues to explain that in the time of humans the city spent $3 billion maintaining the Brooklyn Bridge and the other bridges over the East River over the last two decades, and the Brooklyn Bridge itself was continually maintained and fully repainted roughly every dozen years. The 50 years segment is ended by Alan W. Pense where he stated without maintenance; the cables begin to rust, the paint peels off, the wires begin to break, and one point the bridge will begin to come down.

The fate of the Brooklyn Bridge is revealed in 100 years after people when corrosion cause the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge fails, the decks and railings begin to warp and sway. This cause the deck pulls free and the roadway spills over the East River. Alan W. Pense explains that the cables tend to shred and fail, and when the individual strains starts to fail in a cascading effect, the whole series of deck will begin to fail.

Heavy Metal[]

The Brooklyn Bridge were later featured again in Heavy Metal in 100 years after people when the sound of snapping steel reverberates down the corroded canyons of New York City cause by the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. The show then explains the features of the Brooklyn Bridge and it's roadway which is help up by over a thousand vertical suspender or hanger cables, each about the thickness of a human wrist and made up of 7 strands of steel twisted around each other, a total of 100 miles of steel in every cable, and the cables are galvanized, covered in a protective coating of zinc which corrodes much more slowly then the underlying steel.

Alan W. Pense returns to the episode explaining the wires of the suspension bridge. The explanation is same from the documentary except he adds the galvanized coating can fail and rust as the paint peels offs causing failures by fracture of individual wires. Once enough wires are broken, the cascade begin, causing them to fray and the rope fails. Like the documentary, the roadway spills into the East River below.

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