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Date
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1 MAY 2013
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Time
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18:00 - 20:00
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Event Type
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Lecture
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In Feb 2012, Bill Harvey visited his daughter in New Zealand. She had been enthusing about a new bridge in her village and took him to see it. The faults Bill saw were unlikely to cause collapse, but if they had run the intended opening party, some pieces would certainly have broken and many people would have been frightened.
Such things present a conscientious engineer with real difficulty, and Bill couldn’t walk away. There was no sign identifying the designer, so he contacted the council and got into what became a bitter wrangle until he wrote a detailed report on his findings. At this point the designers, to their great credit, put up their hands and agreed.
It is easy to see how these details developed and how they could slip past the design checks etc. None of them are difficult for a student to understand, but actually spotting the faults might indeed have required some experience.
Bill will talk about the bridge and its details, some of the complications of suspension bridges and how better details might be developed. He will then encourage discussion on the responsibilities that rest on the shoulders of every engineer.
There is no requirement to book a place to attend this presentation, but for all other enquiries please contact Joanne Mallard - joanne.mallard@ice.org.uk / 01752 766230.
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