Websites used to develop Failure By Design

Extensive web resources were utilized (for non-profit educational purposes under the fair use provisions of copyright law) in the development of Failure By Design. Links to those resources are given below, although some are no doubt defunct by now.

Andradne, R. (2000).
Gertie's last gallop [Online]. Available: http://www.gateline.com/gertie/index.htm -or- http://www.gateline.com/gertie/Galloping%20Gertie.zip [2001, January 27].
Billah, K.Y., & Scanlan, R.H. (1991, February).
Resonance, Tacoma Narrows bridge failure, and undergraduate physics textbooks. American Journal of Physics, 59(2), 118-124. Available: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf [2001, January 27].
Edge, R. (1998).
String and sticky tape - and other fun experiments [Online]. Proceedings of the Hands on - Experiments in Physics Education International Conference. Duisburg, Germany. Available: http://ubntint.uni-duisburg.de/hands-on/files/autoren/edge/edge.htm [February 8, 2001].
Elliot, E. (undated).
Tacoma Narrows bridge video [Online]. Available: http://www.camerashoptacoma.com/narrows.asp [2001, February 4].
Expedia, Inc. (2000).
Tacoma, Washington [Online map]. Available: http://maps.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll [2001, February 10].
Exponent, Inc. (undated).
Hyatt walkway collapse [QuickTime Video; Online]. Available: http://www.exponent.com/multimedia/cases/hyatt.html [2001, January 27].
Fuller, R.G., Lang, C.R., & Lang, R.H. (2000).
Twin views of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. College Park, MD: American Association of Physics Teachers. [http://www.aapt.org]
Gies, J. (1963).
Bridges and men. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Groutt, P. (1996).
University of Maryland physics lecture-demonstration facility [Online]. Available: http://jedlik.phy.bme.hu/~hartlein/physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/
lecdem/lecdem.htm#hp [2001, February 8].
Hanley-Wood LLC. (2000).
Q&A: squash blocks and web stiffeners [Online]. Available: http://www.jlconline.com/jlc/qana/framing/squash_blocks/ [2001, February 10].
Harris, C.E. & Rabins, M.J. (1992).
Engineering ethics: The Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkways collapse (NSF Grant Number DIR-9012252) [original version of Lowery (1999) online document]. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, Department of Philosophy and Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Institute for Structural Analysis. (1997).
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) failure [Online]. Available: http://www.cis.tugraz.at/ifb/img/others/tacoma/tacoma.htm [2001, January 28].
James, M.N. (undated).
Failure as a design criterion [Online]. Available: http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/sme/FailureCases/Failure.htm [2001, February 5].
Jensen, J.N. (2000).
Civil engineering case study [Online]. Available: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jjensen/cie.htm [2001, February 17].
Ketchum, M. (undated).
Mark Ketchum's bridge engineering page [Online]. Available: http://www.ketchum.org/bridges.html [2001, February 8].
Koughan, J. (1996).
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, evaluation of competing theories of its demise, and the effects of the disaster on succeeding bridge designs [Online]. Available: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~uer/papers/paper_jk.html [2001, January 27].
Lank, S., Robinson, M., Sevigny, S., Steger, M., & Tsai, J. (1997).
Smash and crash: The Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapse [Online]. Available: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jtt3e/hyatt/paper.htm [2001, February 17].
Lou, B. (undated).
Bridge and resonance [Online]. Available: http://instruction.ferris.edu/loub/media/BRIDGE/Bridge.htm [2001, February 4].
Lowery, L. (1999).
Engineering ethics: The Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkways collapse [Online]. Available: http://lowery.tamu.edu/ethics/ethics/hyatt/hyatt1.htm and http://lowery.tamu.edu/ethics/ethics/hyatt/hyatt2.htm [2001, January 28].
Martin, R. (1999a).
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse [Online]. Available: http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/REU_NSF99/hyatt.htm [2001, January 28].
Martin, R. (1999b).
Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse [Online]. Available: http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/REU_NSF99/tacoma.htm [2001, January 28].
Meador, G. (1997).
Activity #2: Slinky waves [Online]. Available: http://www.teachingtools.com/SlinkyShindig/activ2.html [2001, February 8].
Moore, K.S. (1999).
Large amplitude torsional oscillations in a nonlinearly suspended beam: A theoretical and numerical investigation [Online]. Available: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~ksmoore/ [2001, February 4].
Neyman, P. (undated).
Torsion wave representation [Online]. Available: http://sps1.phys.vt.edu/~pat-man/LiNC/movies/torsion.mov [2001, February 5].
Petroski, H. (1985).
To engineer is human: The role of failure in successful design. New York: St. Martin's Press. Available for purchase at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679734163
Petroski, H. (1994).
Design paradigms: Case histories of error and judgment in engineering. New York: Cambridge University Press. Available for purchase at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521466490
Rogers, K. (1997).
The Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster [Online]. Available: http://137.142.19.40/seconded/second/Kent/Kent.html [February 8, 2001].
Russell, D. (2000).
Vibration and wave animations [Online]. Available: http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos.html [2001, February 4].
Scott, S. (undated).
Tacoma Narrows bridge [Online]. Available: http://people.mn.mediaone.net/sscott2/Text_Files/gertie.html [2001, February 8].
Smith, D. (1974, March 29).
A case study and analysis of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failure [Online]. Unpublished manuscript, Carleton University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ottawa, Canada. Available: http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/Exhibits/Tacoma_Narrows/DSmith/photos.html [2001, February 7].
Tan, B.T., Thompson, M.C., & Hourigan, K. (1998).
Simulated Flow around Long Rectangular Plates under Cross Flow Perturbations [Online]. International Journal of Fluid Dynamics, 2(1). Available: http://sibley.mae.cornell.edu/IJFD/1998_vol2/paper1/paper1.html [2001, February 8].
Underwater Atmospheric Systems. (undated).
Tacoma Narrows bridge [Online]. Available: http://www.nwrain.com/~newtsuit/recoveries/narrows/narrows.htm [2001, February 8].
United States Geological Survey. (1992, May 13).
Tacoma, Washington, United States [Online image]. Available: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=14&T=1&X=168&Y=1635&Z=10&W=2 [2001, February 10].
Washington State Department of Transportation. (2008).
SR 16 - New Tacoma Narrows Bridge [Online]. Available: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr16narrowsbridge/ [2008, March 6].
Washington State Department of Transportation. (2007a).
NTPAW Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tour [Online image]. Available: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/1129855059/ [2008, March 6].
Washington State Department of Transportation. (2007b).
View from the Top [Online image]. Available: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/829349869/ [2008, March 6].
The author thanks the Exponent, Inc. company (http://www.exponent.com) and its webmaster for agreeing to provide the MPEG animation of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.

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