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If you don't design your bridge with the expectation that some yahoo may one day try to bang on the cables with a sledgehammer, you aren't doing your job as an
by logfromblammo 10y ago
If you don't design your bridge with the expectation that some yahoo may one day try to bang on the cables with a sledgehammer, you aren't doing your job as an engineer.
If it is possible, someone will eventually do it.
But the sledgehammer thing is likely insignificant compared with a fully-loaded dump truck crashing into any particular piece of your bridge. So I trust the competence of the engineers that design suspension or cable-stayed highway bridges to the point that I would not worry about someone--or 88 different someones--trying to play one of those bridges like a piano.
Or at least I wouldn't worry about the structural integrity of the bridge. I might worry about the quality of the "music".