Which mechanism limited the use of cast iron suspension bridges in 19th-century Europe?

💡 Explanation

Hydrogen embrittlement caused early cast iron bridges to fail, because dissolved hydrogen weakened the iron's grain boundaries making the material brittle, therefore crack initiation and propagation was accelerated, rather than the other processes more significant under other conditions.

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