Berkeley Research Company metallurgist Lisa Fulton conducted laboratory tests on corroded anchor rods and cable strands from the new self-anchored suspension span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Read the Sacramento Bee Articles:

See her presentation given at the Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists' March 2014 meeting:

This background is a SEM image of a fracture surface of a copper wire that was exposed to fire-simulated conditions. Click here to see details: