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Originally Posted by Hain
EDIT: I am not an architect, but I had a similar conversation with a colleague at my school about the Tacoma Bridge, and her professor stressed to her that "Someone's ass was held responsible" for not considering the natural frequency of the bridge.
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We discussed this as a case study in one of my engineering courses. The problem with the natural frequency of the bridge is that the engineers at the time just didn't know enough about the aerodynamic effects on the bridge and thus didn't think to design for it. After the bridge failed, the engineering community became more aware and started do things like put bridge designs through wind tunnels.
That is one of the drawbacks of discovery: sometimes you learn things by accident and mistake.
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Last edited by Atreides88; 06-22-2008 at 09:05 PM..
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