Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2007 APS April Meeting
Volume 52, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 14–17, 2007; Jacksonville, Florida
Session J17: Special Lunchtime Talk: The Failure of the 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster |
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Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand Ballroom I |
Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:35PM - 1:05PM |
J17.00001: The Failure of the 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster Invited Speaker: The levee failures in New Orleans rank among the worst engineering failures of all time. The city depended on hundreds of miles of levees and floodwalls which had been carefully designed, with safety margins. But in some cases things went badly wrong; structures that should have been able to keep back the storm surge gave way. An entire city paid the price. David Kestenbaum (who was trained as a physicist) covered the story for National Public Radio. He'll talk about one critical structure - the 17th street canal - and how it failed. [Preview Abstract] |
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