The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. The suspension bridge spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula, in the United States. Its replacement was opened in the same location in 1950, and a second, parallel bridge opened in 2007. The instability in winds inspired the nickname Galloping Gertie. The bridge's collapse had a lasting effect on science and engineering.

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  • The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. The suspension bridge spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula, in the United States. Its replacement was opened in the same location in 1950, and a second, parallel bridge opened in 2007. The instability in winds inspired the nickname Galloping Gertie. The bridge's collapse had a lasting effect on science and engineering. In many physics textbooks the event is presented as an example of elementary forced resonance with the wind providing an external periodic frequency that matched the natural structural frequency, even though its real cause of failure was aeroelastic flutter. Its failure also boosted research in the field of bridge aerodynamics-aeroelastics, the study of which has influenced the designs of all the world's great long-span bridges built since 1940. At the time of its construction (and destruction) Galloping Gertie was the third longest suspension bridge in the world, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and George Washington Bridge.
  • De Tacoma Narrows Bridge is een hangbrug in de Verenigde Staten van 1,6 km. Het was de op twee na langste brug van de wereld op het moment dat zij was gebouwd. Op 7 november 1940 om ongeveer 11 uur is de Tacomabrug ingestort door trillingen, veroorzaakt door de wind. Deze brug bevond zich vlak bij de stad Tacoma in de staat Washington en was nog maar 4 maanden opengesteld voor het verkeer. De brug stortte in omdat de wind de brug in resonantie bracht.
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  • The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. The suspension bridge spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula, in the United States. Its replacement was opened in the same location in 1950, and a second, parallel bridge opened in 2007. The instability in winds inspired the nickname Galloping Gertie. The bridge's collapse had a lasting effect on science and engineering.
  • De Tacoma Narrows Bridge is een hangbrug in de Verenigde Staten van 1,6 km. Het was de op twee na langste brug van de wereld op het moment dat zij was gebouwd. Op 7 november 1940 om ongeveer 11 uur is de Tacomabrug ingestort door trillingen, veroorzaakt door de wind. Deze brug bevond zich vlak bij de stad Tacoma in de staat Washington en was nog maar 4 maanden opengesteld voor het verkeer. De brug stortte in omdat de wind de brug in resonantie bracht.
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