Comment on Some secrets are kept better hidden than others

• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like this is absolutely not fine. I know the facade would help protect the interior, but if any sheer force is applied to the core, that thing is less stable than a fifty-move jenga tower.

  If the facade were to rot, let’s say, and someone were to lean against it, they might end up having the whole thing collapse on them.

  I don’t work in construction, but I don’t think there’s any way that meets modern building codes.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    but if any sheer force is applied to the core,

    Thank you… Anyone who had the case of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse drilled into their heads in school recognizes the potential for shear force to fuck this column up.

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    • simulacra_procession@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also this. Basically, TXDOT orders review of the new Corpus Christi bay bridge after a campus built by the contractors failed. Review found the pylon supports insufficient, but they also found the triangle frame connecting the box frames with cables would merc those cables with almost any sheer force. I believe changes were made, have new contractor and project is moving forward as of late last year.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s pretty wild that it made it that far before getting caught… The fact that it was caught is a testament to the system working imo.

        This is what people mean when they say that regulations are written in blood. Hundreds of people died at the Hyatt Regency.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like all you need to recognize that this is not okay is to be not have a traumatic brain injury with a side dish of lazy fuckhead

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, but it’s pretty clear as to why it’s not OK when you understand shear force.

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