Structural Integrity: designing against failure - for iPad/Mac/PC
Structural Integrity: designing against failure - for iPad/Mac/PC
The Open University
The Kinzua rail viaduct, in Pennsylvania, collapsed when it was hit by a tornado in 2003. First built in 1882 and redesigned 1900, it was at one time the highest bridge in the world. The two video tracks in this album tell the story of the Kinzua catastrophe. The subsequent forensic investigation has cast new light on the failure of Tay rail bridge in Scotland 125 years earlier; with 75 people killed, the worst ever disaster to befall a trestle bridge. This material forms part of the course T357, Structural integrity: designing against failure.
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Structural Integrity: Designing against failure
Structural Integrity: Designing against failure
A short introduction to this album.
Feb 11, 2010
56 sec
Transcript -- Structural Integrity: Designing against failure
Transcript -- Structural Integrity: Designing against failure
A short introduction to this album.
Feb 11, 2010
Kinzua's Weakest Link
Kinzua's Weakest Link
An engineer's worst nightmare come true. Using aerial photography and forensic markers to investigate the precise sequence of the collapse.
Dec 24, 2008
10 min
Transcript -- Kinzua's Weakest Link
Transcript -- Kinzua's Weakest Link
An engineer's worst nightmare come true. Using aerial photography and forensic markers to investigate the precise sequence of the collapse.
Dec 24, 2008
Reconstructing the collapse
Reconstructing the collapse
Connecting the failure at Kinzua to the Tay Bridge disaster. What lessons have gone into the construction of the new bridge at Mingo creek?
Dec 24, 2008
9 min
Transcript -- Reconstructing the collapse
Transcript -- Reconstructing the collapse
Connecting the failure at Kinzua to the Tay Bridge disaster. What lessons have gone into the construction of the new bridge at Mingo creek?
Dec 24, 2008
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