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Did this part concern anyone else? > Last month, a team of engineers deployed 96 trucks to strategic points across the bridge to recreate heavy traffic conditi
by margalabargala 1y ago
Did this part concern anyone else?
> Last month, a team of engineers deployed 96 trucks to strategic points across the bridge to recreate heavy traffic conditions to ensure it would not buckle.
Reminds me of this https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/74c15210deb901317193005056a9545d https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/74c15210deb9013171...
- wak90 1y agoThey deploy trucks to see how the bridge vibrates.
- margalabargala 1y agoAnd to ensure it would not buckle, per the article. Implying they were not sure it would not buckle, until they drove the trucks on.
- stevage 1y agoWell, that's how it was reported, but not necessarily accurate.
- M95D 1y agoI'll trust the truck-test far more than any simulation.
- gverrilla 1y agoThat's like saying unit testing implies there are bugs in the code.
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- ishouldbework 1y agoIf I was sure my code had no bugs, I would not need unit testing.
- macintux 1y agoThat's dubious. Unit tests make future development easier.
- potato3732842 1y agoThey probably wanted to quantify how much the bridge moved in various ways. There were likely many "it probably won't move more than acceptable in this way, but if it does we've made it easy to add a change here to fix that" facets of the design. All large complex structures undergo testing like this, sea trials for ships being the quintessential example.
- jacquesm 1y agoA bridge that high up and that long I'd imagine wind loading would be more of a problem than static load from stopped trucks.
- SoftTalker 1y agoI wouldn’t want to be one of those truck drivers, I’ll say that much. Maybe they were remotely operated.
- M95D 1y agoReminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw