A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse
and diagrams explaining what happened and why.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Alternate title: "Strength of Materials When There Isn't Enough."

Jeff
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jeff_wisnia wrote:
A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse
and diagrams explaining what happened and why.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Alternate title: "Strength of Materials When There Isn't Enough."

Jeff

that building is in pretty good shape for just falling over. Most of the
windows even look intact.

Cydrome Leader wrote:
jeff_wisnia wrote:

A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse
and diagrams explaining what happened and why.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Alternate title: "Strength of Materials When There Isn't Enough."

Jeff


that building is in pretty good shape for just falling over. Most of the
windows even look intact.


I thought the same, but there are lots of references to that event via
Google, and Snopes has nothing (negative) to say about it.

Jeff (If I've been had, I've been had.)

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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:37:18 -0500, jeff_wisnia
wrote:
Cydrome Leader wrote:
jeff_wisnia wrote:

A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse
and diagrams explaining what happened and why.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/bldg_fall/

Alternate title: "Strength of Materials When There Isn't Enough."

that building is in pretty good shape for just falling over. Most of the
windows even look intact.

I thought the same, but there are lots of references to that event via
Google, and Snopes has nothing (negative) to say about it.

Jeff (If I've been had, I've been had.)

Yeah, it really happened.

You'd think they could just stand it back up... But the whole thing
is concrete and masonry, and all fractured to heck - look at the side
view with the big curve in the formerly vertical side of the building.
They should be able to go through and salvage most of the windows and
fixtures, and get out all the personal belongings...

But the building itself is now landfill rubble, bulldoze it and start
over. They might be able to salvage some of the bricks if they want
to put people on it with cold chisels and mallets, but most of it
would be best crushed and recycled into fresh cement aggregates.

Digging a big hole on one side and stacking the dirt on the other is a
huge mistake, but... Looks to me like the footing pilings were
woefully inadequate too, but what do I know?

-- Bruce --