News: The Dancing Russian Bridge

[Claymorez]

Drivers tackling a newly built bridge in Russia have been faced with an unusual problem ? seasickness.

The bridge, in Volgograd, has been bouncing up and down in the wind, with cars reportedly having been thrown into the air and turned the wrong way round.

The 4.5mile long bridge has been suffering from oscillations as big as a metre, with drivers initially thinking there was something wrong with their cars.

"I was driving to my country house when my car started bouncing like a ball. I thought there was something wrong with the suspension," said one driver.

The authorities shut the bridge, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation into the problem.

Sounding somewhat like the UK's rail network, reports suggest that the issue has been blamed on the 'wrong sort of winds'.

"Experts agree that it is the dynamics of the air," deputy transportation minister Oleg Belozyorov told reporters. "When wind gusts hit a certain resonance zone, they cause these kinds of consequences."


I thought this looked and sounded hilarious! You haerd of any other such silly events or you reckon this is a hoax?

 

[BloodyThoughts]

Uuuum....
Claymore?
Sorry to tell ya but, wrong topic.

 

[Sleekgiant]

*slow clap*

Way to go, can someone move this to off-topic

Now that its moved, wow, someone must have skipped their engineering classes.

 

[Baby Tea]

Thread moved!
You kids play nice, now!

Also: I love that bridge.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I would totally ride a unicycle on that bridge.

 

[Claymorez]

Uuuum....
Claymore?
Sorry to tell ya but, wrong topic.

Damn I thought it looked odd in the RP/games topic area! Thanks for moving it baby tea also

 

[shotgunbob]

Sounds a bit like this... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge]

Exactly what I thought of as well.

If History tells us anything its that this bridge wont last long

 

[leviathanmisha]

Sounds a bit like this... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge]

That was what I was just about to say...you think they would've learned by now.

 

[Yureina]

I've seen something like this before. Those were some crappy engineers.

 

[Trivun]

I saw something like this in a video my old Physics teacher showed us on resonance. In that one, a guy left his car in the middle of the bridge and waled away. It was oscillating a hell of a lot more than that, and tilting. He left a dog in the car too, the selfish bastard...

Anyhow, it's called resonance and basically acts when vibrations in materials touching the object (the bridge), usually air particles, are vibrating at the same frequency as the object itself. When that happens, shit like this happens. It led to the temporary closure of the Millenium Bridge in London after it opened, because the number of people walking on it was casuing resonance. It's also the reason why glass will shatter when you play a sound of a particular pitch.

 

[Bladecatcher]

Wow, I just realized how much I miss Yakov Smirnoff.