Thursday, March 26, 2009

Tacoma Narrows Bridge - Addressing Misconceptions

A great paper on how most undergraduate physics texts have described the collapse of the infamous bridge erroneously, over simplifying it to a case of forced resonance. The author of the article, Robert H. Scanlan, describes how the bridge failed due to 'aeroelastic flutter' -Good read. 

http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf


-k

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