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Volume 157, Issue 4
1 December 2004
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Research Article| December 01 2004

The Tay Rail Bridge disaster revisited Available to Purchase

T. Martin, BSc;
T. Martin, BSc
MB Engineering Solutions
 
Motherwell, UK
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I. A. MacLeod, BSc, PhD, FICE, FIStrcutE
I. A. MacLeod, BSc, PhD, FICE, FIStrcutE
University of Strathclyde
 
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received: December 03 2003
Accepted: April 19 2004
Online ISSN: 1751-7664
Print ISSN: 1478-4637
© 2004 Thomas Telford Ltd
2004
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Bridge Engineering (2004) 157 (4): 187–192.
https://doi.org/10.1680/bren.2004.157.4.187
Article history
Received:
December 03 2003
Accepted:
April 19 2004

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.

Keywords:
bridges, failures, railway systems
© 2004 Thomas Telford Ltd
2004
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