Viaducts WITH PATHOLOGIES CAN COMPROMISE THE SECURITY

After the fall of the viaduct in the Marginal Pinheiros, viralizou the event on social networks, highlighting the lack of maintenance and problems in other structures.
According to Márcio Estefano engineer, Teacher Travel PhD graduate in civil engineering at the Mauá Institute of Technology – IMT, Concrete is a living being that reacts to the environment daily, requiring constant maintenance and inspection. Factors that prosuch impacts are vocam: rain, smoke from cars, weight trucks, braking of vehicles, among others. The slot is an expansion joint with one outside the normal spacing indicating the lack of conservation, However, no structural problem depicts the construction. It is needed to space has the overpass to expand and contract according to temperature change and not crack.