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They deploy trucks to see how the bridge vibrates.
by wak90 1y ago
They 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.