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Old 03-14-2014, 11:35 AM   #10
Sundae
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Originally Posted by SPUCK View Post
If they couldn't model it well enough to know it would vibrate I'd be concerned they've modeled it well enough to know what will happen when some event, (car wreck?), causes people to pack it on one side...
A similar thing happened on the Milennium Bridge in London, when it was discovered that the vibrations from people walking in step -on a pedestrian bridge - made the structure wobble alarmingly. It was known as the Wobbly Bridge for ages after they got it sorted.
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