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Re: Short-lived major rail engineering

On 16 May, 18:58, The Real Doctor <ian.gro...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> I read with interest a while back that Bouch had contracted Airy (as
> in "Airy Stress Function") to predict the wind loadings on the bridge.
> Airy got it wrong by a factor of ten - too low - but at the enquiry
> the judge ruled out even considering this as (I paraphrase) "It was
> inconceibvable that the reputation of a man such as Airy should even
> be brought into question")

There is a very good, fairly recent, reappraisal of the Tay Bridge
collapse, by the Open University Department of Engineering,
downloadable at:

http://tinyurl.com/55stne

It's worth getting the high-res version, for the excellent
photographs.  It pretty well dismisses the 'train blown off track'
argument, and makes a convincing  case for plain and simple poor
workmanship.