BRIDGE FAILURE CAUSES IN EXTREME FLOOD EVENTS

Bridges are important in modern world. Bridges add beauty to the roads. Bridge failures are one of the most infrastructure problems in the world. It often leads to the catastrophic consequences, loss of life, restricted commerce. Whenever there is a disaster there is loss of lives, damage to the public property. Road networks acts as viens. Without roads everything will come to halt. Therefore roads and bridges are to be maintained properly to keep them functional. The damage to the bridges will cost more and their rehabilitation will cost even more. Therefore to avoid such loss of money and lives, proper inspection for the bridges is necessary. Further we need to analyze the causes of the failure and need to overcome those causes so that in future we are prepared to save our infrastructure.