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Tacoma Bridge

Collapse of the Tacoma Narrow Bridge.  
 
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sjz88 (4 hours ago) Show Hide
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True, but it's really hard to predict the resonacne frequency of a complex buiding/bridge etc.
They should've found out though by building and testing a small version of the bridge.
sjz88 (4 hours ago) Show Hide
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The speed of wind an frequency of the bridge were the only reasons of the collapse.
The vortex created at the end of the bridge were the wind stream over the bridge ended blew in the exact same frequency as the bridges own.
Following that the bridge started shaking like that.
If the wind had been any faster or slower nothing would've happend.
Trust me in this ;)
hmanham (17 hours ago) Show Hide
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Really? Ill look into that, my physics teacher said it was because of the bridges resonance frequency.
danemaricich13 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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I guess not. Ha!
danemaricich13 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Actually, it was a phenomenon called aeroelastic flutter. The wind and frequency had nothing to do with the collapse.
hmanham (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Its very hard to predict the resonance frequency of something you design.
mebloke69 (4 days ago) Show Hide
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quality goes on..
battousaiblade (5 days ago) Show Hide
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watching it,
i can't believe that it was real shaking back and forth like that
kaylee9876 (5 days ago) Show Hide
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I live in Tacoma. Ever since they rebuilt the bridge it is still standing to this day. They actually built another one right next to it to help with traffic.
8ooO0Ooo8 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Poor doggie.

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