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Some of the last ones have video clips, #25 is crazy.
The stats for some of them are absurd and the images as well.
Bridges are awesome I guess
http://www.travelandleisure.com/arti...iest-bridges/1
Some of the last ones have video clips, #25 is crazy.
That Louisiana is ed up, no land for 24 miles?!
The one in France and the brand new one in China are sweet looking
That lake is pretty shallow and the bridge sits right above it; doesn't really feel like you're even on a bridge.
Yeah, the Causeway isn't that scary to drive over. It would be a sucky place to have an accident or run out of gas or something, but just driving it is a breeze.
Not being afraid of heights, though, there weren't many of those that looked too scary to me until #23 or so.
25 looked fake as .
son and I drive across it all the time for Hornets and Saints games without thinking twice ... but damn what if
There are many that I would not walk across. no.
Yeah, I'm leaving most of those suckers alone.
I've been on #15 Deception Pass Bridge several times. The fog can get really nasty.
The worst thing about those long Louisiana bridges is the concrete expansion joints. that la-lump-la-lump-la-lump-la-lump-la-lump-la-lump sound as you drive over them puts you right to sleep...
I've driven the Chesapeake Bay bridge many times and it was always fine unless there was a wreck or something. And it was absolutely never as unnerving as driving that tunnel that goes underneath the bay.
Check this bridge out...I studied it in engineering...a classic harmonic vibration failure.
I've lived in that area too and driven over the replacement bridges many times. But I thought about this video every single time I drove it
Wasn't that bridge only a year or so old when it collapsed?
Yeah, it was basically brand new.I've lived in that area too and driven over the replacement bridges many times. But I thought about this video every single time I drove it
Wasn't that bridge only a year or so old when it collapsed?
I've seen that before, scary and amazing.
What elements in a well-made suspension bridge prevent such oscillations?
lol bridge failures are funny looking
Technically it was aerostatic flutter, but it was essentially forced resonance with the wind providing an external frequency that matched the natural bridge frequency. Some cost compromises were made in the design phase (remember this was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time and they were still learning) and the solution would have been better isolation/absorbing structural mounts and a stiffer structure on the bridge itself. It was a beautiful "slender" design that was still strong enough in all other ways but when the resonance started it wasn't stiff enough to overcome it...
They are not scary
that's what I was talking about. I knew it wasn't scary
I used to live on the Delmarva Peninsula and have driven both the bay bridge and the bay bridge tunnel numerous times
sometimes they close down the tunnel during storms, but if you ever drive it during one it's freaky how you can see water splashing over as you exit both tunnels.
I've also been across the Royal Gorge Bridge (riding, not driving), which was listed at 25 i think, and GODDAMN that scared the piss out of me.
The scariest bridge by far though was the Grace Memorial bridge in Charleston, SC, which is gone now and replaced with a new one. That was tall, narrow, rickety, and just a frightening experience.
yeah the drive over Pontchartrain gets boring after the first few miles, nothing really exciting. You familiar with Toledo Bend Lake? When I worked down there a couple years ago i had to take a patient to Nacogdoches (sp?), TX, and we crossed that bridge during a pretty good storm...normal, low-level bridge but kind of a surreal experience for some reason
I can see how that would be a problem, but the only times I've driven them (recently) for any length I had my cat in the car with me. All I heard was angry meowing.
Really, Pakistan?
does this lead to the temple of doom?
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