Posted on 03/16/2018 8:55:54 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
"FIU is about building bridges and student safety. This project accomplishes our mission beautifully," said FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg said in a statement earlier this month. "We are filled with pride and satisfaction at seeing this engineering feat come to life and connect our campus to the surrounding community where thousands of our students live."
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I wouldn't doubt that a bit.
But also, they were supposedly conducting some sort of stress test. By its very nature a test is something where the outcome is not 100% known, and to allow traffic underneath the bridge at the time means they really didn't consider it a test, but just something that had to be checked off from the checklist.
was it designed properly?
lawyers & insurance companies will hire other engineers to review the design. if the design was flawed, then it's an epic engineering failure. if the design was sound, next question:
was it constructed in accordance with the design? if the answer to the first question is "yes", then the answer to this question is undeniably "no"....
then the next question is: why?
I've designed a few mechanical (not structural) systems that were not constructed as designed. My firm actually had a contractor argue that because we didn't catch his (unauthorized) changes and/or mistakes, that it was our fault.
I agree with you. Stop blaming Chinese steel which runs the world and start blaming progressive ideology...
Well said, thanks. I was just making a silly quip, but of course we don’t yet know that anything was wrong with the engineering per se. The problem(s) could lie with suppliers, materials, contractors, execution, etc.
I was thinking Chinese steel
The design was supposed to be bridge supported by hanging on cables from the central support.
Idiets put up one half of the bridge, made of concrete, made to hang, but not supported over the span.
It collapsed under own weight. They needed to support it while the other half and center support tower is raised and cables ran to the anchor points on the bridges.
PC smart ass engineering, installation, funded by tax dollars and kickbacks to politicians.
FRee advice from FRengineer.
design engineers are not responsible foe the means and methods of construction. if the design is sound, the engineers are clean.
There were no cables, you could see where they would be bolted onto the upper structure. There was no tower that would sit upon a nonexistent center foundation to carry the cables, if there were it collapsed before the cables were installed.
The official story that they were tightening the cables is a lie. As far as I can see there were no cables installed. Look closely at the early pictures of the collapse, you can see every bolt that cables were to be bolted to, and no broken parts or nuts on them.
They should have keep support underneath this bridge until it was finished. Someone made the decision to rush the job, and they should be prosecuted for murder.
Thank You!
From what I have read over the last two days this sounds like the bridge was not installed properly. It has nothing to do with the design or materials. This single tower cable support system has been used all over the world. The Zakim bridge in Boston is a fine example of a cable stayed bridge.
Why on earth didn’t they block off traffic until the suspension cables were installed and the safety of the whole thing had been thoroughly tested? That didn’t make any sense at all, to have cars traveling on this road before all had been completed. I sincerely hope the families of the deceased and injured sue the stupid third-rate university out of existence.
Why does a pedestrian bridge need to weigh 1000 tons?
PC College student brains are made of the most dense material known to man.
And you’d easily win that bet.
Nothing wrong with their drywall either.
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_drywall
Images
https://tinyurl.com/yabkgaso
My guess is the company got bonus money for finishing early so they cut corners.
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THAT is a bridge.
I love looking at old bridges, built back when each bridge had it’s own character or personality.
Beautiful.
I interpreted the story about cables being tightened referring to cables internal to the span, intended to keep the concrete in compression; not suspension cables.
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The bridge identifies as “still standing”.
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