What caused the collapse of the I-35W bridge? One of the truss members was overloaded One of the piers was damaged because of earthquake Gusset plates failed High wind overturned the bridge Deterioration of truss due to corrosion Confirm the case assigned to you? Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5 Which truss member is assigned to you? U13-L13 Compute the force on the member assigned to you? Is the member in tension or compression? Tension Compression Solution The i-35w Bridge failed due to gusset plate failure it happened like too thin gusset plates ripped on the bolt line due to improper adequacy and design flaw.Due to heavy load it caused the catastrophic failure. For remaining questions data was missing, try to send me data i will answer those..