China Bridge Fails
China Bridge Fails
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RE: China Bridge Fails
RE: China Bridge Fails
This is a wakeup alarm for all those who were too eager to place their work in china. Today's news told about massive recalls of chinese toys marketed by major US toy mfrs.
RE: China Bridge Fails
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Sorry, but no surprises here.
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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"An editorial in the official China Daily on Tuesday warned that thousands of the country's bridges were unsafe. "If left unrepaired these bridges may crumble at any time, wreaking economic havoc and possibly claiming human lives," it said.""
Notcie how economic havoc was more important than a few human lives.
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here is a NY Times story that ran a week after the Twin Cities Bridge Disaster and two weeks before this one. Noted Civil Eng. author Henry Petrosky discusses the great bridge works going on in China relative to the USA geriatic infrastructure.
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RE: China Bridge Fails
RE: China Bridge Fails
That doesn't sound like cable stayed/girder.
I don't know that this particular incident says anything about China specifically. We've had US bridges collapse during construction (generally on smaller scale), recently had a post about some building floors collapsing during construction. That's a problem, but not necessarily a design problem in the finished structure.
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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(I may have tweeked this a bit here)
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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2)TY Lin international is an excellent firm. The hybrid bridge system is a simple but good idea for bridges with short or medium spans. I like this idea.
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If I recall correctly wasn't the head of the food safety agency convicted of negligence or something recently in light of some of the food scares etc and wasn't he sentenced to death?
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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I haven't read the full article from which you quote "wreaking economic havoc and possibly claiming human lives" but from that sentence I don't see that there is any suggestion that the economic havoc would be more important than the loss of life.
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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In seismic bridge design, the philosophy is "no collapse", meaning we're not worried if the bridge will be rendered unusable, we just don't want it to collapse and injure or kill someone.
Granted, when a facilty is destroyed it creates economic havoc - case in point: The World Trade Center.
But what's more important?
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Never, but never question engineer's judgement
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I noticed that as well in the pictures attached to the first posted article. The columns seem to have it, but the spans don't. I was hoping it was just the pictures were from too far away to see it, but from the article you posted - maybe not.