Friday Math Movie – Stressed Out

8 Aug 2008 · Posted in Computers & Internet, Math movies, Mathematics 

This week’s movie from Wired.com tells us about smart structures that monitor themselves.

Every structure that you depend on can fail – the chair you are sitting on, the building you are sitting in, and the bridge you cross every day.

Structural health monitoring involves collecting of data that will reduce structural failures because we’ll know about any problems before they become too big.

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