PickVidsThe Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
推荐理由
Grady from Practical Engineering has a great explainer of what went wrong
说明
这是2017年由Tom Scott发布的一部讲解，主题归在Civil engineering & construction。它讲的是structural engineering failures这一支里的具体问题，而不是把整个领域扫一遍。适合按兴趣直接看、不打算先补课的人。内容上可以概括成：A Tom Scott guest video by Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering on the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. A seemingly minor change to the support design led to catastrophic failure, which is why the case is taught as a lesson to check and double-check everything.这些读者给出的理由，核心是：HN cites it as the standard case study of how a small unchecked design change causes disaster, and of why engineering process and bureaucracy exist.讲法不绑某一条新闻，过几年仍然可以当材料看。从2017年到2021年，有1位不同的读者在1个不同月份把它推荐出来，其中明确叫别人去看的有0次。适合用一集把一个概念补上的人。抓住它用的那个图像或类比，比背公式重要。如果已经会了基本定义，就把注意力放在它怎么把structural engineering failures变成能跟着复述的例子。
视频信息
- 频道
- Tom Scott
- 时长
- 4 分 21 秒
- 发布年份
- 2017
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