17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
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Both links include some harrrowing pictures
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/asia/taiwan-earthquake/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35508475
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/asia/taiwan-earthquake/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35508475





RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
very odd don't you think...
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
I'm amazed how most of the building stayed.... assembled.
Keith Cress
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35515749
Perhaps it was not a load bearing wall.
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
This is a case where the guilty parties should be slowly killed with a butter knife.
Dan - Owner
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Keith Cress
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
http://mashable.com/2016/02/06/taiwan-earthquake-z...
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
One report mentioned the age of the building meant it had been built before stricter codes were introduced in the wake of another strong quake.
We have a vendor based in that city, out main contact is OK but doesn't know yet about his colleagues as they are out on break for Chinese new year, I'm hoping & praying for the best.
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
The main problem with concrete construction is the weight, which limits the span length. Research in the use of reinforced concrete in buildings looks at reducing the weight, either by reducing the weight or overcoming the weakness in tension. The voids are used to reduce weight.
The use of voids is common in prefabricated concrete deck slabs:
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Sadly the media are not particularly good at their job. I know of several events of which I have personal knowledge where the reporting had very little to do with what actually happened. Take everything they say with a grain of salt, and the more political or technical the topic, the less you believe without evidence.
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Dan - Owner
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Should this idle speculative discussion be terminated until the final-formal report is issued?
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Nice and ductile.
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Don't believe the failure of a deck slab resulted in the building rotating over. A failure of a floor slab would have caused the floor to drop vertically.
Most likely there was a failure associated with the vertical columns.
"The structural system of the building was pretty poor," said Sheen Mau-song, a professor of civil engineering and member of the Taiwan Civil Engineering Association who is part of the government's team investigating the collapse.
"There were very few pillars on the first floor, the pillars were quite scattered about, and the materials, from the weakest side, were destroyed."
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Don't know, civil isn't my bag...
Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
"It is preposterous" to think that cooking oil cans would be used in a pillar for support purposes, Tai said.
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201602070017.aspx
This image shows the columns on the first floor after the building rotated clockwise:
Weiguan Jinlong apartment Building:
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
But perhaps they are a clue about how shoddy the construction was.
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Does the reinforcement look small?
Suspect substandard construction, weak concrete, improper reinforcement and stirrup
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
The building is on its side.
"If only one building fails catastrophically and everything else is left standing with only cosmetic damage, one can only assume that the structure had a fundamental flaw in its design, or that its construction was very shoddy."
http://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/seismoblog.php/201...
These are the pictures of the building prior to the earthquake from google earth.
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RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
The picture provided by bimr at 02:10 looks like the stories above are displacing in a separate direction from the first...
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
RE: 17 Story Building in Taiwan Collapses post 6.4 magnitude earthquake
http://international.thenewslens.com/post/283869/
http:http://peer.berkeley.edu/pdf/reconnaissance_Taiwan...