FAILUROLOGY

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Kankaria Amusement Park Ride Accident in western India. This accident occurred when the cable connecting the counterbalance with the shaft, and the shaft itself, snapped midair while 30+ people were on the ride. Like pretty much all of the ones we cover on this show, it was preventable and the lives lost and injuries suffered could have been avoided had the ride been properly maintained. Episode Sources ● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/2-dead-29-injured-in-kankaria-ride-crash/articleshow/70220777.cms ● https://www.newsweek.com/india-theme-park-crash-kankaria-pendulum-deaths-amusement-park-1449253#:~:text=A%20pendulum%20ride%20at%20an,The%20Times%20of%20India%20reported. ● https://time.com/5627156/india-amusement-park-ride-video/ ● https://www.who.com.au/worst-theme-park-accidents ● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/rules-for-amusement-rides-safety-in-offing/articleshow/72946171.cms Ways to get in touch with us Twitter - https://twitter.com/failurology Email - [email protected] Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Land O Lakes Sinkhole in Florida. In July 2017 a sinkhole swallowed two houses and condemned many nearby houses. Episode Sources ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_o%27_Lakes,_Florida ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_nVB1RDIcw ● https://www.winknews.com/2017/08/12/geologists-study-massive-land-o-lakes-sinkhole/ ● https://www.theledger.com/story/news/state/2017/08/12/geologists-study-massive-land-olakes-sinkhole/19727480007/ ● https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/sinkholes Ways to get in touch with us Twitter - https://twitter.com/failurology Email - [email protected] Website - www.failurology.ca

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus. This week’s Mini Failure is about the Standard Oil Building in Chicago. During construction, a section of the exterior marble cladding fell off the building, leading to a complete recladding in the early 90s. Episode Sources ● https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/two-buildings-two-cities-one-problem/article17996906/ ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aon_Center_(Chicago) ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place#Cladding Ways to get in touch with us Twitter - https://twitter.com/failurology Email - [email protected] Website - www.failurology.ca

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of Failurology; a podcast about engineering failures.

This week's episode is the Failurology Origin Story; AKA the Q&A episode.

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Welcome to the sixteenth episode of Failurology; a podcast about engineering failures. This week's episode is about the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse.

After the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was hit by the MV Summit Venture, collapsing a 300m+ section of the bridge into the Tampa Bay, Florida had to rebuild the bridge better and safer. This episode covers the original bridge construction (6:00), the bridge collapse (7:45), and how the failure shaped the new bridge design (14:50).

Engineering news segment covers the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover (4:25) - https://phys.org/news/2021-02-mars-team-awestruck-photo-descending.html

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