Re:Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy
by Someone on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:58PM
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No. You can (in theory) design a bridge so that it is strong enough to withstand a 1000 year event and has a life expectancy or a single day.
An engineer may say things like “if you build it this way, do this maintenance, it will withstand 100 year events for its service life of 50 years”
You see that (in a slightly different form) with storage media. A SSD drive with a mean time between failures of a million hours typically will have an life expectancy that is significantly shorter (https://www.controleng.com/single-article/learn-or-review-th...)
An engineer may say things like “if you build it this way, do this maintenance, it will withstand 100 year events for its service life of 50 years”
You see that (in a slightly different form) with storage media. A SSD drive with a mean time between failures of a million hours typically will have an life expectancy that is significantly shorter (https://www.controleng.com/single-article/learn-or-review-th...)