Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
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Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
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RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
Bill
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RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
Dik
RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
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RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
so it appears as if the beams have failed.
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RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
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RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
Keith Cress
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RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
The key word in your comment is "optimized". There is no reason a crane cannot be supported off the superstructure of a building, provided the superstructure is designed for the forces imposed. The other issue is connections to the structure, and that may be the problem here.
RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
I realize they could build any building to do this but why? I'd think you might have to do fairly odd things to a building to get it to safely support a crane like that. I'd expect the building to be made to support vertical loading (weight of the building) not large lateral forces applied essentially at a point.
Looks to me the building failed more than the connection to the building, since the building shape appears to have been affected in the accident. I'd sure like to see a picture of the inside. :)
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Tower crane collapse onto occupied apartment building in Sydney, Australia
We can't really see much of the building from those pictures. The scaffolding is in the way. But you may be right, the structure may have failed. Whichever, coordination between the crane design and the building design/construction was faulty.
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