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Collapse mechanism

This page shows two videos from the Open University podcast (2001) - The riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster. The first video shows Professor Iain MacLeod explaining the collapse mechanism predicated by the wind Theory. The second video shows the simulation of the collapse mechanism.