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Quote: the Brooklyn bridge is six times stiffer than necessary since aerodynamic lift was not understood

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program design

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"Most of you," says Vyssotsky, "probably recall … 1940. Well, suspension bridges had been ripping themselves … Nobody really knew how to [model the eddy spectrum] until the … because John Roebling had sense enough to know … He knew about aerodynamic lift on suspension bridges; … designed the stiffness of the truss on the … dynamic loads would have called for.   Google-1   Google-2

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