The Bridge That Resonance Did Not Break
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is taught as a lesson in resonance. Two engineers argued in 1991 that the lesson was wrong.
Abhishek Leela Pandey2 Qs · Medium
How things are designed and built, and why they sometimes fail.
1 long-form engineering essays, written at the density of real CAT passages, each with CAT, XAT and GMAT-style questions and explanations. For real exam passages, practise the solved CAT RC PYQs; for a daily routine, see CAT RC practice.
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is taught as a lesson in resonance. Two engineers argued in 1991 that the lesson was wrong.