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Aeroelastic instability — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 024681012-0.01-0.0050.005wind speed (m/s)total damping ratio0.60% damping · 1.2 Hz4.14 m/s — nothing leftbelow: a disturbance dies awayabove: the structure drives itself

    The motion that feeds itself

    A steady wind contains no frequency at all, and it can destroy a bridge. The force that does it is manufactured by the structure's own movement, so there is no excitation to resonate with — there is a wind speed above which the equilibrium is unstable, and below which nothing happens.

    rung 1 · dynamics

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