5 Civil Engineering Failures That Led To Design Breakthroughs and New Technologies
By Ohio University’s Online Master of Science in Civil Engineering.
By Ohio University’s Online Master of Science in Civil Engineering.
Progress is rarely ever a straight, ascending line. More often than not, accidents will happen in the pursuit of higher technology and practices. Failure is something that engineers and scientists must both be ready for and expect, because failure is what inspires so many people to become better. That said, civil engineering is a field that does not have a lot of room for error. However, despite the best efforts of all professionals involved in the field, these errors may happen and cost governments millions of dollars in collateral damages. While such failures may be demotivating at first, they would eventually go on to inspire others to improve upon the errors that had occurred in the first place.
The following infographic, created by Ohio University’s Online Master of Science in Civil Engineering program, highlights five civil engineering failures that led to remarkable breakthroughs in the industry, ensuring that the accidents and damages were not in vain.
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Infographic Sources:
1. Tacoma Narrows Bridge
2. Hard lessons
3. Lessons from the Progressive Collapse of the Ronan Point Apartment Tower
4. The Quebec Bridge Collapse of August 29, 1907
5. Quebec Bridge
6. NASA - STS-51L Mission Profile
7. The 1928 St. Francis Dam Failure and Its Impact on American Civil Engineering
8. 25 years later: How the Challenger disaster brought NASA down to earth
9. Civil Engineering Disasters - The St. Francis Dam Flooding
10. Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion: 25 Years Later, A Still Painful Wound
11. The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why
12. Upgraded metro New Orleans levees will greatly reduce flooding, even in 500-year storms
1. Tacoma Narrows Bridge
2. Hard lessons
3. Lessons from the Progressive Collapse of the Ronan Point Apartment Tower
4. The Quebec Bridge Collapse of August 29, 1907
5. Quebec Bridge
6. NASA - STS-51L Mission Profile
7. The 1928 St. Francis Dam Failure and Its Impact on American Civil Engineering
8. 25 years later: How the Challenger disaster brought NASA down to earth
9. Civil Engineering Disasters - The St. Francis Dam Flooding
10. Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion: 25 Years Later, A Still Painful Wound
11. The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why
12. Upgraded metro New Orleans levees will greatly reduce flooding, even in 500-year storms
Top image (bottom): St. Francis Dam after the 1928 failure. Credit: Stearns, H.T. USGS/Wikimedia Commons.
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