THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS and WILD-ASS THEORIES! I ran a test to see why the post tension rod was sticking out of the rubble. There was a problem with cracking on the pylon side of the bridge. As my homebrew experiment proves the rod must have failed during tensioning just before the bridge collapsed. Engineering Forum http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=436595
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Congrats on making it to the news
Knock 8t off your alk funneling money
If you can't deal with the way people really talk. I have only one thing to say.
FAW Q.
Wondered why you had gloves on. Realized you prolly have hand tats.
Nope must just be cold lol this was a fascinating breakdown. I don't know how I got here but wow. This was so well explained.
Architectural PE in Texas
Subbed as soon as you dropped the fuck-bomb lmao
Just goes to show when we rely on a bumblefuck to do something, it can go wrong.
This guy is from another planet. Insane level of intelligence.
I’m not an engineer but I know steel is better than concrete in terms of horizontal flex. The bridge should have been all steel with maybe one or two columns for support. I dunno. 😢
I would like to point out AvE nailed this now that the official reports are out.
Corpus Christi is next I said it
This helped with my Engineering Ethics course!
Great video. The official report also called out that the calculations were assuming a redundant structure, but it was a single load path. So the bridge was underdesigned from the get-go. Also, the shear line between the truss member and bridge deck was a cold joint, and was supposed to be roughed up to 1/4" before the truss pour. It was not. So the genesis of the failure started in the design phase, moved into the construction phase, and continued right into the installation phase. A complete breakdown of engineering discipline all around.