Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach
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26.
Learning from Failure: Hurricane Katrina
The flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005,
was the costliest engineering failure in American history, and one of
the deadliest. Local and federal authorities had spent hundreds of
millions of dollars to build a comprehensive hurricane protection system
for the city; yet, this system failed catastrophically during Katrina.
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25.
Corporate Culture: The Boeing 737 MAX
What role should corporate culture play in the development of an
airplane? Discover what went wrong in the development of Boeing?
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24.
Blowout: Deepwater Horizon
You don?EUR(TM)t have to know much about oil and gas to imagine the myriad of
technical difficulties that come with drilling an exploratory well miles
below a floating platform on the high seas.
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23.
Nuclear Meltdown: Chernobyl
No engineering failure in history had more world-changing consequences
than the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the
former Soviet Union. Discover the numerous design, organizational,
personnel, and bureaucratic flaws that resulted in the explosion of
Reactor 4 during a routine safety test?
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22.
Decision-Making: The Challenger Disaster
Unlike most structural catastrophes, the 1986 Challenger disaster
occurred on live TV. Before long, the entire viewing audience became
familiar with the infamous O-rings.
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21.
Maintenance Malpractice: The Mianus River Bridge
You know that if you don?EUR(TM)t maintain your car, it can stop working?EUR"no
matter how good its design and construction. But we have often
overlooked that lesson when it comes to bridges. Follow the fascinating
case of the Mianus River Bridge and discover how lack of maintenance
caused its collapse in 1983, although the bridge had just been
inspected. What happened to those pin-and-hanger connections? And
exactly, whose fault was it?
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20.
Construction Engineering: Two Failed Lifts
Some engineering failures occur when the construction process goes badly
awry. Explore two such cases: one in which five people died trying to
implement an ad hoc solution to an unexpected construction challenge and
one in which a building collapse was caused by a flawed technology that
was intended solely to improve construction efficiency.
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19.
Water in Soil: Teton Dam and Niigata
Within days of filling its reservoir, the Teton Dam began to leak.
Bulldozers that were sent to plug the leaks were instead swallowed up by
a growing sinkhole.
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18.
Soil and Settlement: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
What would the Tower of Pisa be if it weren?EUR(TM)t leaning? Not as
interesting, and certainly not as attractive to tourists. That was the
issue faced by the late-20th-century engineers who figured out what
caused the lean and devised a way to reduce the tower?EUR(TM)s angle of tilt.
Take a journey through the centuries to explore how various engineers
tried to stabilize the leaning tower, but only succeeded in making the
problem worse. Today, the Pisa tower has been saved; but what about the
more recent ?EURoeLeaning Tower of San Francisco?EUR??
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17.
Stress Corrosion: The Silver Bridge
On a cold night in 1967, the Silver Bridge in West Virginia collapsed
into the Ohio River, killing 46 people. For 39 years, the bridge had
been hailed as an engineering triumph with its cost-saving, innovative
structural concept.
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16.
Brittle Fracture: The Great Molasses Flood
In December 1915, United States Industrial Alcohol (USIA) built?EUR"without
any formal engineering design?
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15.
House of Cards: Ronan Point
Modular, reinforced-concrete components can be manufactured in a
factory, transported to the job site, and then assembled into
multi-story buildings. But in one such 22 story development, a minor gas
explosion dislodged a load-bearing wall on which the entire high-rise
structural system depended, triggering a major collapse.
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14.
Shear in Concrete: The FIU Pedestrian Bridge
The Florida International University Pedestrian Bridge was created with
long-span trusses made of reinforced concrete, using post-tensioning to
prevent cracking. The cracks that did show up during construction were
said to be ?
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13.
Experiment in Iron: The Ashtabula Bridge
Handing lucrative contracts to family members is apparently nothing new,
but rarely has it led to such a public catastrophe as the 1876 Ashtabula
Bridge disaster. As you learn the fascinating history of entrepreneur
Amasa Stone?
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12.
Stone Masonry: Beauvais Cathedral
On November 29, 1284, much of the renowned Cathedral of Saint-Pierre at
Beauvais collapsed without warning. Had this Gothic church simply
exceeded the inherent maximum height of a stone structural system, as
some historians have suggested?
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11.
Dynamic Response: Boston?EUR(TM)s Plywood Palace
Boston?EUR(TM)s John Hancock Tower was still under construction when winds of
75 miles per hour struck on January 20, 1973.
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10.
Dynamic Response: London?EUR(TM)s Wobbly Bridge
On June 10, 2000, Londoners celebrated the technological promise of the
new millennium with the opening of a state-of-the-art pedestrian bridge
over the Thames River. Two days later, the Millennium Bridge was
vibrating so intensely that it was closed and did not reopen for more
than two years.
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9.
Bridge Aerodynamics: Galloping Gertie
One of the most epic engineering failures in history was the collapse of
the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. Nicknamed ?
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8.
Structural Response: The Hyatt Regency Walkways
In 1978, a developer chose to build a hotel in Kansas City using a
management technique called fast-tracking, in which construction begins
before the design is complete. While the approach can work, it requires
careful communication between the owner, design professional, and
constructor.
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7.
Blast Loading: The Murrah Federal Building
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh?EUR(TM)s bomb demolished almost half of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
Explore details of the building?EUR(TM)s design and specific ways in which
various structural elements responded to the blast. Is it possible that
a few modest changes to the steel reinforcement might have allowed the
building to survive with only localized damage? Learn how the
investigation of this tragedy has led to a fundamentally new engineering
design philosophy.
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6.
Vehicle Collisions: Land and Sea
When an unexpected squall limited visibility to near zero, the Summit
Venture freighter collided with Tampa?EUR(TM)s Sunshine Skyway Bridge on May 9,
1980, shearing off a reinforced concrete pier and toppling 1,300 feet of
the bridge into the bay.
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5.
Earthquake Loading: The Cypress Structure
If you were watching Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, you saw the Loma
Prieta earthquake as it happened. While the earthquake caused many
fires, landslides, and structural failures, two thirds of the fatalities
were caused by the collapse of the Cypress Structure, a two-level
elevated highway.
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4.
Rainwater Loading: Kemper Arena
In 1976, the American Institute of Architects presented an Honor Award
to Helmut Jahn for his innovative design of the Kemper Arena in Kansas
City. Three years later, a 43,000-square-foot section of the roof
collapsed onto the floor during a storm.
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3.
Wind Loading: The Tay Bridge
When the Tay Bridge in Scotland was completed in 1878, it became the
longest bridge in the world. Its collapse the following year, with a
loss of 75 lives, triggered a crisis of confidence among the British
traveling public.
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2.
Flawed Design Concept: The Dee Bridge
One spring evening in the mid-19th century, a three-span iron bridge
across England?EUR(TM)s River Dee collapsed just as a locomotive reached the
middle of the third span.
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Learning from Failure: Three Vignettes
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What does a 19th-century British railway disaster have in common with the partial collapse of a hotel in 20th-century Kansas City and the 21st-century destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans? All were engineering failures that resulted in important improvements in the engineering process.
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