Stress analysis of a strapless evening gown
Charles Seim is project engineer of the Gibraltar Bridge, the somewhat whimsically proposed giant structure that would join Spain and Morocco, spanning a distance of five miles across the strait of Gibraltar. He prepared for this perilous task early in his career, by writing a report in 1956 called "Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown."
"Effective as the strapless evening gown is in attracting attention," Seim writes, "it presents tremendous engineering problems to the structural engineer….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian