Challenge, The: The Riddle of the Tay Bridge Disaster

Synopsis: One of Britain’s most terrible railway disasters was the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when everyone on board a passenger train was killed when the central section of the bridge toppled into the Firth of Tay. There are many theories as to exactly why the original Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879. Some of these theories are complicated, others rely on unproven mathematical solutions. Can modern forensic methods, combined with photographs taken at the time of the disaster, solve the problem once and for all?
Series: Engineering the Future (T173)
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2001
Availability: Out of distribution
Documentation: Downloadable article at: http://materials.open.ac.uk/about_us/isr1707lowres.pdf
and website at http://www.open2.net/forensic_engineering/
Subjects: Design; Engineering
Keywords: bridges; disasters; engineering design; forensic science

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