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Re: Overpass rigidity?

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Originally Posted by M. Krass View Post
Has anyone else with a field built to spec. found this to be true? I'm curious how much of the deflection we're seeing might be present in the FIRST fields or if it's something that's unique to ours that we should try to fix.
We built an overpass out of steel pipe, pretty much exactly to spec. Don't know about bounciness, but it does sag a couple of inches in the centre of the span.
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