The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering and physics classrooms across the world. Both resonance from vortex shedding and aeroelastic ...
On November 7, 1940, only four months after it opened, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a wind of 42 mph—even though the structure was designed to withstand winds of up to 120 mph.
Andrew, former assistant chief engineer on the San Francisco Oakland bay bridge, who built the Tacoma Narrows span ... suggestion was that the bridge had collapsed under harmonic motion set ...