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 thought it identified as a sidewalk and went through a "successful" transition.
Wasserman Memorial Bridge.
Titanic was an engineering feat, too.
So what pronoun should we use? ...Uper? ... Stif?
LOL!
You’ll have to ask the bridge.
Remember, though, it can change daily.
Nuts, ...the bridge is not speaking to me, it knows I am an Engineer.
But God designed the Iceberg, it was no contest.
And if in Japan they’d kill themselves. Props.
I was waiting for it to collapse.
I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m so tired of seeing cheap Chinese crap for sale everywhere. More than half the stuff on Amazon now is no-name Chinese stuff.
The US is becoming S. America where the elite can afford the best stuff (in our case, goods made in the US) while everyone else is left to buy cheap crap made in China. It makes me mad.
But remember, folks, merit based criteria = racism.
Sorta like “clips” vs “magazines”?
I am quite sure that there are no internal cables within concrete that can be tightened or loosened. They simply did not build the center support that should have been from the ground up to the top of towers, then the cables down in the places with exposed bolts awaiting them. This was a Cluster Foxtrot, and someone needs to go to prison for murder.
Yes, the single tower support design works. The ZERO tower support design doesn’t work.
More like “bullets” vs. “cartridges”.
“Looks like a prefab steel span would have been much cheaper and better in retrospect much better....”
no kidding. utterly insane in my opinion to use concrete.
In Colorado, nearly ALL of the modern pedestrian bridges are prefab steel. lighter, cheaper, safer:
Wow, I was wrong. I would like to see how often this “post tensioning” is used. It is a failure waiting to happen IMO. How can concrete, which by its nature inflexible, be counted on to move without cracking over time? Concrete gets harder and harder as it dries. Concrete is never completely dry. The drier concrete becomes, the more likely it is to have micro-fractures.
I have one question for engineers, were the floors in the Twin Towers post-tensioned concrete panels?
Steel needs to be cared for. It needs to be sanded, inspected and painted. I worked on elevated roadways doing just that. I have never heard of tensioning concrete after it is dry enough to put in place.
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