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To: BenLurkin

Dang. Not just a failure, but a total failure of the entire bottom of the pool.


27 posted on 04/29/2021 7:23:36 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

We’ll never get the rest of the story, but my bet is that the building operator knew that the pool was leaking, probably for years. The original engineering design was probably fine, but corrosion (and the third-world tradition of skimping on the rebar) led to a sudden tensile failure. An insufficient design, with way too little rebar should have lead to a plastic failure, much earlier in the structure’s service life.


41 posted on 04/29/2021 9:10:49 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Look closer - it wasn’t the bottom of the pool that failed. The pool appeared to be side-anchored, structural stability was based on side hangers ... there was no bottom support.


43 posted on 04/29/2021 9:35:08 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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