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The Tay Rail Bridge disaster revisited

A view is being expressed that the Tay Rail Bridge disaster of 1879 was not fundamentally due to the action of the wind but was a result of fatigue damage caused by dynamic loading. The paper discusses this proposition and shows that the evidence to support it is weak.

T. Martin | I. A. MacLeod | I. MacLeod | T. Martin

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