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Welcome to the Bridge simulation homepage!
The Bridge simulation, Bridge.exe,
is a fourth year Applied Maths project developed by Cillian
ÓTuama, supervised by Prof.
Joe McKenna. It simulates the behaviour of a heavy rod suspended
under gravity, in an attempt to explain the collapse of the Tacoma
Narrows suspension bridge.
Bridge.exe, (80K approx) is a standalone executable for
the Windows platform. To use, simply download
to your hard drive and run.
Other sections of this website contain a brief history of the
problem, methods used in creating the simulation, and a user
guide. To view this information at your leisure download the
full project report
(MS Word 2000 format - size 640K)
Results obtained thusfar using the Bridge simulation are
presented in the "Results" section. New results can
also be posted here.
System requirements
Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0
Pentium 100 Mhz
800 x 600 screen
3 MB RAM
Recommended
Pentium II
1024 x 768 16 bit (High colour) screen
Note: Some Windows 95 and NT users may have problems running
the stand-alone version of Bridge.exe. If so download the full install. (690K)
This website was designed by Cillian
ÓTuama. Last updated on December 11 2000.