'Galloping Gertie': Looking back at the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
Thursday marks the 84th anniversary of when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge infamously collapsed due to strong winds in 1940. The ...
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Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed
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 ...
What should Tacoma’s newest bridge look like? And where should it be built?
In a city of famous bridges, Parks Tacoma wants to know where its next mini-iconic bridge should go. The agency wants to ...
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
In 1998, The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically ...
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Leon Moisseiff
The Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse was a true disaster, but it did have a silver lining. It motivated the engineering community to do extensive testing and research to make suspension bridges safer.