CitiCorp Center - the Math behind the Crisis
In this video, I go through the math behind the infamous the Citicorp Center crisis of 1978 crisis that stemmed from a civil engineering student asking about its design. My two main sources for this video are: The original New Yorker article (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...) LeMessurier's lecture at the National Acedemy of Engineering ( • William LeMessurier-The Fifty-Nine-Story C... )
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