Avalanche Burys Hotel in Italy
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RE: Avalanche Burys Hotel in Italy
Man do they have a story.
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Dik
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It can be done, but the cost would be outrageous. To design a ski chalet to withstand the impact of an avalanche would seem require lots of concrete/steel.
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Agreed, the response was to cranky... the original thread has an engineering component and belongs in this fora.
Almost like making house trailers tornado proof.
Dik
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> Engineering (Failures & Disasters)
vs.
> (Engineering Failures) & Disasters
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I still feel you might get better cost in snow build up prevention.
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Where did the damage occur, was it ductile, did it give people time to evacuate or find a safe zone? All questions we can ask and learn from..... Though I don't expect to get much of that until we see some more post evacuation pictures of the failure.
Prevention of snow build up may be the best way to avoid this type of disaster in the future. But, that doesn't mean we can't still learn from it.
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When the big one finally hits California, someone will say afterwards, "Gee, why couldn't we have prevented all that damage?" I think there are physical limits to what we humans can do in the face of the forces Nature can throw at us. We think we're the big cheeses, but we're really no more than ants crawling on the face of the Earth.
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Keith Cress
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Buildings designs aren't my thing and I wouldn't know an avalanche resistant ski chalet from one that never stood a chance, but I always find the "everything worked as intended" failures much more interesting than those where the failure mechanism is obvious as soon as the failure occurs. Something about having to dig deep in to the design criteria to figure out where it went wrong always, in the end, results in a much more satisfying investigation. Having simply to say that the design should have been followed, or this simple construction precaution should have been followed and all would have been well is much more just a slap of the forehead than a real event investigation.
It is my understanding that there's a power line from a hydro plant to Juneau Alaska that traverses an avalanche prone slope where one steel mono-pole is accompanied by multiple stub poles to form a prow around the main pole so that any avalanche is disrupted and diverted prior to taking out the pole that actually holds the conductors.
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I would suggest the logical expansion of your statements:
> Engineering (Failures & Disasters)
would be Engineering Failures AND Engineering Disasters
and
> (Engineering Failures) & Disasters
would be Engineering Failures AND Disasters
The event clearly falls under Engineering Failures AND, if so then falls under Engineering Disasters. Your first statement is TRUE.
and regarding the second statement,
The event clearly falls under Engineering Failures AND Disasters
and the second statement is TRUE.
Your thesis might be considered as a trivial solution in some circles, but, I digress off topic.
It's been a slow boring day...
Dik
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Keith Cress
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A wedge presupposes a known direction for an avalanche, but most places I've seen, there's multiple ridges, so multiple directions.
Esthetics-wise, a 10 or 20 ft tall wedge in the middle of the ski resort is going to be ugly.
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Although a round shape might be a better design.
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Something like this, but with snow?
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But that's at the top of its local terrain, as opposed to being at the bottom of a valley surrounded by hills laden with snow
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Keith Cress
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Conway Castle in Wales:
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So maybe we should all be sleeping in our cars.
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However, there must be people knowing to pick construction locations not prone to avalanches / mudslides. Then again, well, shouldn't immunity against such events be a stringent design criteria for construction in mountain areas?
I come from a small town near the sea, so the need for a breakwater is evident, and projecting this into the mountains this could be done by some dam or buildup hillock towards the slope. Could be fitted nicely into the picturesqe landscape w/o evident concrete..
Roland Heilmann
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Seriously? We don't even do that in the US. Floods, tornadoes, etc. routinely demolish buildings and towns, and I don't see anyone saying that the re-builds should be tornado or flood proof. Or earthquake proof in Alaska and California. We don't demand that our cars be build to withstand all possible collisions. We don't demand that our airplanes have triple redundancy in all systems.
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Seriously? We don't even do that in the US. Floods, tornadoes, etc. routinely demolish buildings and towns, and I don't see anyone saying that the re-builds should be tornado or flood proof. Or earthquake proof in Alaska and California. We don't demand that our cars be build to withstand all possible collisions. We don't demand that our airplanes have triple redundancy in all systems.
We actually do design for snow and wind loading in specific geography; as well as size heating and cooling systems accordingly.
I recall reading that a homeowner in Tennessee was able to save his home from the recent forest fires because he had managed his property (clearing brush) over the years to mitigate the effects of a forest fire
In your own experience, if you have a chronically wet basement you put in shelving to keep stuff off the floor.
The challenge is what to do with existing structures
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So maybe one should start with insurable risk. If the cost of insurance is real high, then maybe that's the wrong place.
In the middle of the US houses get blown away by tornadoes, but some houses survive for over 100 years. So much for bad luck.
However, if the houses were designed as earth shelter houses, they might better survive. But they have a lower resale value.
I have heard many times that people should not be allowed to build there because of the risk. Yet, I can say the same for building on the coast, or even for house boats.
The fact is there is no place that has no risk.
Was this a bad place for a building? Or had more than usual risk?
I don't know, but if there is a way to reduce the risk or effects, then let's hear it.
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RE: Avalanche Burys Hotel in Italy
pls. give me the chance of a rehearsal of wording and to add some illustration:
- "design criteria" to be read "choice of location" - criteria,
- immunity: Instead of building at a per se dangerous location (add fences / protections at cost as described as above by others), why not use excavated soil + some boulders to build up some breakwater ("breaksnow"), in case no other location is at hand and especially instead of doing nothing and waiting for the big one?
These are commonplaces, sure enough. However, doesn't it seem as if commonplaces aren't hardwired into regulation there's a good chance to get them ignored?
I'm sorry the ill. is an attachment only, the "upload image"-functionality doesn't work anymore for me.
Roland Heilmann
Lpz FRG