Posted on 07/04/2023 4:45:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN
North Carolina labor officials are looking into an amusement park roller coaster after a visitor spotted a crack on one of the ride's support pillars last week.
Jeremy Wagner posted to Facebook on Friday that he discovered the crack in the Fury 325 giga roller coaster at the Carowinds amusement park and notified officials. The ride was temporarily shut down.
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The video is mesmerizing.
Something is VERY wrong with the engineering of this structure’s supports. The ride should be condemned, and the firm which designed it held strictly liable.
Made with water pipe?
Who designed this thing? Stockton Rush?
I’m no structural engineer by any stretch of the imagination, however I would think a few concrete pilings wou be in order.
And Spackle.
The root cause, in my opinion, is the root pass on the weld.
Bad root can’t be repaired. It has to be ground out and done again.
It doesn’t matter how great the filler passes are.
Bad root equals bad weld.
I wonder what standard roller coasters are welded too?
Gotta be more stringent than D 1.1
That’ll buff right out.
Chinesium is the “technical term” I believe you are looking for.
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And yes, I wondered the same.
That article says absolutely nothing about “regulatory history”.
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