{"id":165191,"date":"2025-06-07T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165191\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:38:10","slug":"meet-madhavi-latha-the-iisc-professor-behind-worlds-tallest-chenab-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165191\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Madhavi Latha, the IISc professor behind world\u2019s tallest Chenab bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Non-Rigid Approach to Design<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional projects, the Chenab Bridge did not begin with a fixed design, which posed a challenge. \u201cA rigid design with fixed dimensions and pre-determined solutions would not have been feasible,\u201d Latha wrote. To constantly evolving geological conditions, she, along with her team used a flexible &#8216;design-as-you-go&#8217; method to respond, this method included methods using fractured rock, steep slopes, concealed cavities, and high wind speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Non-Rigid Approach to Design Unlike traditional projects, the Chenab Bridge did not begin with a fixed design,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,69238,4022,77,18566,1501,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-chenab-bridge","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jammu-and-kashmir","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114642597270929872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}