Collapsing structures to be tested in revamped UW engineering lab

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Meet the Baldwin: This 40-foot-tall compression machine is central to the University of Washingtons Structural Research Laboratory. The equipment performs full-scale tests for earthquake stresses and extreme loads on ports buildings and bridges. Soon ...
Meet the Baldwin: This 40-foot-tall compression machine is central to the University of Washington's Structural Research Laboratory. The equipment performs full-scale tests for earthquake stresses and extreme loads on ports, buildings and bridges. Soon it will also simulate collapse. Credit: UW

Just as Minneapolis now finds itself in the middle of a national debate on bridge safety, so the Puget Sound area was some 70 years ago. The infamous collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 prompted a national discussion on bridge engineering. It also provided the impetus for founding University of Washington's Structural Research Laboratory, which opened its doors in 1948 in the school's department of civil and environmental engineering.


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