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Did this part concern anyone else?

> Last month, a team of engineers deployed 96 trucks to strategic points across the bridge to recreate heavy traffic conditions to ensure it would not buckle.

Reminds me of this https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/74c15210deb9013171...



A bridge that high up and that long I'd imagine wind loading would be more of a problem than static load from stopped trucks.



I wouldn’t want to be one of those truck drivers, I’ll say that much. Maybe they were remotely operated.


They deploy trucks to see how the bridge vibrates.


And to ensure it would not buckle, per the article.

Implying they were not sure it would not buckle, until they drove the trucks on.


Well, that's how it was reported, but not necessarily accurate.


They probably wanted to quantify how much the bridge moved in various ways. There were likely many "it probably won't move more than acceptable in this way, but if it does we've made it easy to add a change here to fix that" facets of the design. All large complex structures undergo testing like this, sea trials for ships being the quintessential example.


That's like saying unit testing implies there are bugs in the code.


If I was sure my code had no bugs, I would not need unit testing.


That's dubious. Unit tests make future development easier.


I'll trust the truck-test far more than any simulation.




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