Whatever but I do think you got the idea about what happened!!!!Flyover has a completely different meaning to me (involving my airplanes)...
Around here, we call them an Overpass...
It says volumes about India's construction industry and engineering expertise.Whatever but I do think you got the idea about what happened!!!!
Totally agree!!It says volumes about India's construction industry and engineering expertise.
Totally agree!!
British built still stands for something....Mind you, that's still the British Victorian infrastructure.
Indeed, TM117. Incompetence has no nationality.May their souls rest in peace.............
Wasnt there also a bridge so poorly designed it resonated to the point of destruction in the wind, I think maybe that was India as well or maybe they used an Indian company, also in the UK I think sometime around when I was born a bridge people walk on was constructed, but they had to close it shortly after opening as it also resonated and made people sick as it swung side from side. Then there is that bridge in Scotland they had to shut due to metal fatigue.
I was aware the bridge was in the States, that was kind of my point. the London one I didnt make clear and your correct it had something to do with how people fall into sync when walking, the bridge resonated at the same frequency, I know about the Millenium bridge because we studied it in design and technology, it was given as a bad example of a designer being let loose and making all the calls and none of the engineers being listened to.As already mentioned, it was in the USA - and the world learnt a LOT from that disaster.
The UK one was the Millenium footbridge across the Thames in London - more do to resonance than wind if I recall?.
They ought to play videos of the really packed Indian trains with people hanging off the sides on the London Underground!! Some kind of heading under the footage to the effect of 'stop B itching about standing room only!' lolAt least their trains run on time
Or at least better than UK ones
Mind you, that's still the British Victorian infrastructure.
Wasnt there also a bridge so poorly designed it resonated to the point of destruction in the wind, ...
The problem in India is not expertise but the dirty nature of politics
If it is the bridge they showed us in engineering school (that collapsed during the winds) the designers were flaming idiots who ignored warnings that it was unsafe. The reason there was a nice movie of the bridge collapsing was that some people KNEW it would collapse and they went out there with a camera on days where high winds were predicted to get film of what they predicted would happen. The designers chose to ignore information they did not want to hear..... after working as an engineer for 32 years, all I can say is: Been there, seen that.When that bridge was designed, the designers were not aware of how the wind would interact with its aerodynamic drag, and excite resonance. The designers learned not to do that again....
The Tacoma Narrows bridge became known as "Galloping Gertie" after it started to resonate in winds once the deck was in place. It was being filmed because it had a history of resonating not because anyone knew before it was built that it would resonate. Like the Millennium Bridge in London, I don't think that anyone expected problems, but there was a lot of filming once resonance started.If it is the bridge they showed us in engineering school (that collapsed during the winds) the designers were flaming idiots who ignored warnings that it was unsafe. The reason there was a nice movie of the bridge collapsing was that some people KNEW it would collapse and they went out there with a camera on days where high winds were predicted to get film of what they predicted would happen. The designers chose to ignore information they did not want to hear..... after working as an engineer for 32 years, all I can say is: Been there, seen that.
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