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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said he voted to approve the bridge's design in the 1990s when he was a Contra Costa County supervisor, but he never thought the span would take as long and be as expensive as it turned out to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if I'd vote for this design again if I had the benefit of hindsight,\" DeSaulnier said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bridge was designed to replace the existing eastern portion, part of which collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. After years of delays and cost overruns, the bridge has become the largest public works project in state history, the committee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials overseeing the repairs and tests on hundreds of existing bolts said, once it's open, it will be a much safer option than the current bridge being used daily by commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has taken too long. But I do believe when we talk about the safety of the new bridge, we have to keep the safety of the old bridge in mind, Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said. \"It is a comparison. Which one is safer? We need to get people on the safer one as soon as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge officials say testing of the broken rods with others manufactured in a different batch in 2010 indicate the rods in question broke because of a bad batch of steel that at some point was infected by hydrogen, which made it brittle and prone to breaking. The rods that failed were made in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further testing of the 2010 rods is needed before officials can determine if they need to be replaced immediately or just monitored after the bridge is opened to traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If immediate replacement is needed, the bridge's scheduled Labor Day opening would likely be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are trying to restore public confidence in the bridge's safety, and they applauded the Federal Highway Administration's decision to conduct an independent review of Caltrans' work identifying the cause of the broken rods and the agency's chosen repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If crews can verify the safety of the remaining rods and complete the $20 million repair to the broken ones, officials said there would still be a chance for a Labor Day opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, no one involved in the bridge's construction feels that a celebration should occur for a project well over budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to retrofit the east pier (where the rods broke), and may need to retrofit the celebration too,\" Heminger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, state Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, issued a statement saying he has \"grave concerns over the construction of the new eastern span.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition, when it comes to the bolts that we have seen fail, Caltrans deliberately chose to ignore industry and their own standards for the types of metal to be used in a marine environment. This simply cannot be shrugged off as merely a 'bad batch' of bolts,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Citing myriad problems that have dogged the span’s construction, lawmakers on Tuesday will ask California Department of Transportation and other officials whether the agency is capable of managing such large, complex projects.Its Labor Day opening is in jeopardy after the failure of 32 seismic safety rods that attach the bridge deck to earthquake shock absorbers called “shear keys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge will replace the existing span, which was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of delay and cost overruns, the bridge has become the largest public works project in state history, the committee said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the report on the Highway Administration’s inquiry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Highway Administration on Monday said it is investigating the state’s response to broken steel seismic safety rods on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FHWA spokesman Doug Hecox said the agency has launched its review after it received a request by state bridge officials, but it did not have an idea of how long the probe would take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will examine the California Department of Transportation’s conclusion about the cause of the rod failure and the state’s recommended fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public confidence is extremely important, and the public will be confident when we can say backed by independent review that the bridge is 100-percent safe,” Andrew Gordon, the Bay Bridge project’s spokesman, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repair work has put the span’s scheduled Labor Day opening in doubt, and Caltrans asked the FHWA to conduct a review to help determine whether the bridge will still open on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge officials on Wednesday requested that the FHWA review its findings that the rods broke because hydrogen had penetrated the steel, which caused it to become too brittle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failed rods were made in 2008 and were designed to connect the bridge deck to so-called “shear keys,” which help control movement during an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials still do not know how the hydrogen got there, but a metallurgists’ report determined the steel used in manufacturing the rods was “less than ideal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report said the hydrogen corrosion in the rods could have been discovered earlier if Caltrans had required tougher tests. The agency said it is developing new requirements that would require tougher testing in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fix the problem, Caltrans and the oversight committee are recommending that two steel saddles be installed to hold the shear key’s base plate in place. The saddles would be held down by hundreds of steel cables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge officials hope the FHWA’s review into their diagnosis of the problem and their chosen repair option will help provide clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hecox said the agency did not yet know whether investigators would travel to the site or conduct the probe remotely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that resolution of these questions will determine the schedule for opening the new span,” the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, which oversees the bridge project, wrote in its request.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: KQED's Dan Brekke reports from the meeting today in which Caltrans described its intended solution for the problem of fracturing steel bolts that have plagued the building of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Caltrans engineers said they’ve developed a solution that involves a 'saddle' -- sort of a rubber band made of steel cables -- that will wrap around the area affected by these broken steel rods and will allow the shear key structures, which are designed to absorb seismic movements, to operate as intended. The saddle will be held in place by very large anchors and wrapped in concrete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said the fix will cost as much as $10 million. Caltrans still hopes to open the bridge as scheduled over Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later today, Caltrans is expected to say how it plans to deal with some flawed steel components installed in \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the new eastern span\u003c/a> of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. After a series of reports from the San Francisco Chronicle revealed the agency ordered rods made from a kind of steel not recommended for use in bridges, many Californians are asking whether the $6.4 billion bridge will be safe to drive on, let alone open for Labor Day as promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report’s Rachael Myrow talked to state \u003ca href=\"http://sd07.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Mark DeSaulnier\u003c/a> of Contra Costa County. He chairs the Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;font-weight: normal\">\u003cstrong>MARK DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: This is the largest public works project in the history of the state -- the largest, in fact, west of the Mississippi. So, having been involved with it for a long time -- being a former Metropolitan Transportation Commissioner and having voted on this design when I was in that position -- this was always sold as a safety issue. We're trying to make sure what happened during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, that when that earthquake hits again that this bridge will be able to sustain that. So it's always been about safety. At this point, having spent $5.3 billion more than what we were told we were going to spend, I think it's really important that we make sure it's safe and we quantify to some degree what we get for paying all that money.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/myrow-bay_bridge.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the story.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/myrow-bay_bridge.mp3]\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>MYROW\u003c/strong>: Are you confident, senator, that Caltrans knows what it's doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYROW\u003c/strong>: Because?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: Obviously, there was a mistake made on the fasteners that The Chronicle has talked about. There was a mistake made on the bolts, and they have pretty much admitted those mistakes. So, both of those things certainly erode your level of confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYROW\u003c/strong>: Do you think this agency has a systemic problem with quality control?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: I think there's a definite cultural problem at Caltrans. I've run a number of bills, including one last year to create an inspector general's division, which other states have. New York has had one for some time, and it's just had the ability to have outside experts keep a close eye on the Department of Transportation. I was not able to convince the administration to sign that bill. I have another one this year that would move some existing audit functions from under the director of Caltrans to the California Transportation Commission that would, I believe, provide a greater level of accountability and more transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYROW\u003c/strong>: Are you at all worried that basically we're going to have a $6.5 billion bike path in a few months?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: There is a joke, which I don't find too funny, about the world's longest and most expensive fishing pier. My hope is that we will get this bridge open on time, or close to on time. We do know that the existing bridge is not safe. This has always been a race against time since 1989, when \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=7050920\" target=\"_blank\">Loma Prieta\u003c/a> happened. So, it's really important that we focus on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYROW\u003c/strong>: Beyond the global embarrassment of the media coverage and the questions being asked about the safety of the new bridge, do you see any sanctions in the future for Caltrans employees or leadership?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: I think people have to be held accountable. We all expect that in our own jobs, whatever they may be. So, we need to make sure the bridge is safe. Then we have to go back and find out why these mistakes were made and make sure there's corrective action, and part of that corrective action is to hold people accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MYROW\u003c/strong>: You've had the opportunity, sitting on the Senate Transportation Committee, to really dig into the details in a way that a lot of civilians really haven't. Is there a particular question that's burning for you about how the decision to use this kind of steel was made and then how it wasn't questioned as folks rolled forward with it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DESAULNIER\u003c/strong>: I think there's a really interesting analogy in the aerospace field. After the Challenger disaster the Reagan administration put something together called the Rogers Commission -- very, really interesting for discovering that sometimes there's an acceptance institutionalized in these large organizations for safety risks that you shouldn't take, and I think that that's analogous to this situation. I think a lot of good people took risks that they probably shouldn't have. They didn't follow written protocol, and now we are at the end of this long road -- hopefully close to the end -- and we're finding out that it's going to cost more than it ever should have, and we're not certain of the safety. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO — The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has more than 1,200 bolts made from galvanized steel that is virtually identical to a high-strength alloy that a nationwide group of transportation officials banned for use on bridges because the bolts can crack, the \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/10LOYCl\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92879\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/news-pix-prop-8-oral-arguments-bay-bridge-bolts-snap-devils-slide-tunnel-opens/bay-bridge-bolts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92879\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolts-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the underside of the eastern side of the new Bay Bridge on March 27. Bolts can be seen in a rectangular formation in the center of the photo. Thirty-two steel rods on the new eastern span have snapped. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92879\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the underside of the eastern side of the new Bay Bridge on March 27. Bolts can be seen in a rectangular formation in the center of the photo. Thirty-two steel rods on the new eastern span have snapped. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bolts are used to anchor structures designed to keep the bridge stable in an earthquake, band the main cables together, hold the cables down at the top of the tower and bind them to the road decks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said last week that it was testing 192 bolts on the bridge that are similar to 32 galvanized bolts that cracked when workers tightened them in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failed bolts were among 96 supplied in 2008 by Ohio-based Dyson Corp., the same firm that delivered the batch of 192 bolts two years later, The Chronicle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents examined by the Chronicle show the state has purchased 932 other fasteners for the bridge in the past five years that—like the failed bolts—were made of high-strength, galvanized steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is completely the wrong material for use in this application,” Charles McMahon, emeritus professor of materials science at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Chronicle. “I have devoted decades of my career to studying this. This steel is almost guaranteed to give you cracking under these conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.transportation.org/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials\u003c/a>, a national organization that sets standards for steel used in large highway structures, bans high-strength, galvanized bolts for bridges, the Chronicle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Highway Administration\u003c/a> warned the state highway officials group about galvanizing such hardened steel for bridge use. Such bolts “are susceptible to possible stress corrosion cracking and embrittlement during galvanizing,” the federal agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Caltrans said in a statement to the Associated Press said that it used standards set by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.astm.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society for Testing and Materials\u003c/a>, an organization that, according to its website, develops and disseminates high-quality standards and technical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The design team determined that in this application, American Society for Testing and Materials standards were appropriate. We ordered the steel consistent with those standards and in a way to guard against hydrogen embrittlement,” Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In March, bolts broke at one location and we’re going to solve that problem. If that means replacing more rods, that’s what we’ll do. We’re taking a very thorough and methodical approach that is based on scientific evidence and rigorous testing,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>By The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO — The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has more than 1,200 bolts made from galvanized steel that is virtually identical to a high-strength alloy that a nationwide group of transportation officials banned for use on bridges because the bolts can crack, the \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/10LOYCl\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92879\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/news-pix-prop-8-oral-arguments-bay-bridge-bolts-snap-devils-slide-tunnel-opens/bay-bridge-bolts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92879\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolts-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the underside of the eastern side of the new Bay Bridge on March 27. Bolts can be seen in a rectangular formation in the center of the photo. Thirty-two steel rods on the new eastern span have snapped. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92879\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the underside of the eastern side of the new Bay Bridge on March 27. Bolts can be seen in a rectangular formation in the center of the photo. Thirty-two steel rods on the new eastern span have snapped. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bolts are used to anchor structures designed to keep the bridge stable in an earthquake, band the main cables together, hold the cables down at the top of the tower and bind them to the road decks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said last week that it was testing 192 bolts on the bridge that are similar to 32 galvanized bolts that cracked when workers tightened them in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failed bolts were among 96 supplied in 2008 by Ohio-based Dyson Corp., the same firm that delivered the batch of 192 bolts two years later, The Chronicle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents examined by the Chronicle show the state has purchased 932 other fasteners for the bridge in the past five years that—like the failed bolts—were made of high-strength, galvanized steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is completely the wrong material for use in this application,” Charles McMahon, emeritus professor of materials science at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Chronicle. “I have devoted decades of my career to studying this. This steel is almost guaranteed to give you cracking under these conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.transportation.org/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials\u003c/a>, a national organization that sets standards for steel used in large highway structures, bans high-strength, galvanized bolts for bridges, the Chronicle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Highway Administration\u003c/a> warned the state highway officials group about galvanizing such hardened steel for bridge use. Such bolts “are susceptible to possible stress corrosion cracking and embrittlement during galvanizing,” the federal agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Caltrans said in a statement to the Associated Press said that it used standards set by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.astm.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society for Testing and Materials\u003c/a>, an organization that, according to its website, develops and disseminates high-quality standards and technical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The design team determined that in this application, American Society for Testing and Materials standards were appropriate. We ordered the steel consistent with those standards and in a way to guard against hydrogen embrittlement,” Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In March, bolts broke at one location and we’re going to solve that problem. If that means replacing more rods, that’s what we’ll do. We’re taking a very thorough and methodical approach that is based on scientific evidence and rigorous testing,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95212\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/bay-bridge-bolts/bridge/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95212\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Bridge-300x150.png\" alt=\"A graphic of the location of anchor bolts on the bridge. The faulty 2008 bolts are circled in white. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graphic of the location of anchor bolts on the bridge. The faulty 2008 bolts are circled in white. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Caltrans say they will replace or reinforce all 96 of the 2008 anchor bolts installed in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, not just the 30 that have failed so far. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Comedy-of-errors-led-to-bad-bridge-bolts-4428913.php\" target=\"_blank\">Those bolts snapped\u003c/a> within days of being tightened this March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Read more about the bolts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Caltrans-missed-chance-to-detect-bad-bolts-4439866.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans may have missed chance to detect bad bolts (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/10/broken-bolts-could-result-from-bay-bridge-design-flaw/\" target=\"_blank\">Rainwater may have damaged flawed bolts (KQED)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/03/more-bay-bridge-parts-to-be-examined/\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans investigates testing history of bridge bolts (KQED)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger also today unveiled two possible design solutions, down from three, to ensure the seismic safety of the bridge. But Heminger told members of the Bay Area Toll Authority that he couldn't give a timeline for a repair for another two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of other open questions, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those is what to do with 192 similar bolts installed on the bridge. This batch was manufactured in 2010 to the same specifications as the ones that gave way. So far none of the 2010 bolts have shown weakness and initial testing seems to suggest they are stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heminger told commissioners there are quite a few differences between the batches, \"but unfortunately quite a few similarities.\" For instance, both lots of bolts had the same manufacturer and were built with the same plans. However, Heminger said the materials that went into the 2010 batch were more uniform.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95213\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/bay-bridge-bolts/embrittlement/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95213\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95213 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Embrittlement-300x198.png\" alt=\"A careful look at the metal in the 2008 rods that show hydrogen embrittlement. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A careful look at the metal in the 2008 rods that show hydrogen embrittlement. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, today hydrogen embrittlement was definitively fingered as the cause of the breaking bolts. The responsible party, and likely the one who will have to absorb the cost, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one local metallurgist, though, the answer is clear. Yun Chung, a retired Bechtel materials engineer, sent Bay Area transportation leaders a letter that seems to fault Caltrans and the process it used to determine whether the material would be service worthy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_23091957/more-steel-rods-bay-bridge-could-snap-retired\" target=\"_blank\">He told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> that more bolts could still fail if they are not replaced..\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It is very apparent that no one was paying attention to the possibility of hydrogen embrittlement when the rods were in service,\" said Chung, who retired 20 years ago and lives in the East Bay. \"Instead, they were focused on hydrogen in the production process. 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