The author is ignorant of global warming theory... All things bad are caused by global warming including nasty cold weather.
I guess the designer of that building didn’t want to over engineer the roof on the Metrodome.I guess he wasn’t planning on having it around very long.
What was the snowload design for the structure? I’m sure there was 17 inches in the past. Why wasn’t there something in the design to melt this off??
We have 3-4” of globull warming in Nashville today. We haven’t had significant accumulation this early in MANY years.
It amazes me that a polycarbonate (or whatever) roof lasted more than a decade in such a region.
I have seen steel truss roofs built to withstand 36” snowfalls collapse while the paint was still drying. Massachusetts in 1979, Liberty Tree Mall.
30 years service was a gift from God.
No shocker, just mother nature bitching off as she tends to.
I wouldn’t call it a collapse, rather the roof fabric ripped. All the structural elements appear to remain intact. I can’t tell if the structural elements even yielded, but may have remained in the elastic region throughout the high strain rates.
Sitting here in Denver where it’s 65° lmao.