Comment by margalabargala

Comment by margalabargala 15 hours 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/74c15210deb9013171...

M95D 3 hours ago

Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

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jacquesm 14 hours ago

A bridge that high up and that long I'd imagine wind loading would be more of a problem than static load from stopped trucks.

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SoftTalker 14 hours ago

I wouldn’t want to be one of those truck drivers, I’ll say that much. Maybe they were remotely operated.

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wak90 14 hours ago

They deploy trucks to see how the bridge vibrates.

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margalabargala 14 hours ago

And to ensure it would not buckle, per the article.
Implying they were not sure it would not buckle, until they drove the trucks on.

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- gverrilla an hour ago
  
  That's like saying unit testing implies there are bugs in the code.
  
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- M95D 3 hours ago
  
  I'll trust the truck-test far more than any simulation.
  
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- stevage 13 hours ago
  
  Well, that's how it was reported, but not necessarily accurate.
  
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