Engineers are using lessons learned from London’s Millennium Bridge, notorious for wobbling on its opening day, to prevent an unwelcome repeat situation on a slender, curved new cable-stayed structure ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--When participants in a charity event took the first walk across the newly opened London Millennium Footbridge in 2000, their feet fell into sync, and the natural side-to-side motion of ...

Crowds Walking Can Make A Bridge Sway A study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society explains why thousands of tourists were able to make the London Millennium Bridge sway on its opening day in 2000.

In June 2000, the London Millennium Footbridge linking Bankside with the City of London was officially opened with a charity walk. However, participants caused the bridge to sway as they fell into ...

Engineers for London’s £18m Millennium Bridge have finally worked out how crowds of pedestrians made it wobble so alarmingly on its opening day. The answer is a simple relationship. As the bridge ...

A quarter of a century after it opened and promptly closed, London's Millennium Bridge is marking its 25th anniversary. The footbridge, which spans the Thames between St Paul's Cathedral and the Tate ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Steve Strogatz has a penchant for things that happen in unison. So when the Cornell University professor of theoretical and applied mechanics (and author of the 2003 book "Sync: The ...