A Bridge to Remember
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Description: Short introduction with some statistics about the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
design failure lessons - case 1: article 5 Copyright 1982 McGraw-Hill, Inc. A few months after Galloping Gertie--the Tacoma Narrows Bridge -twisted and undulated itself to destruction in 1940, civil engineering Prof. J. K. Finch, of Columbia University, by-lined an article in ENR titled "Wind Failures of Suspension Bridges or Evolution and Decay of the Stiffening Truss." He recounted numerous instances of aerodynamic instability--some ending in collapse of the structures--dating back to the earliest years of modern suspension bridges.
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