Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
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Just.didn't.fall...
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RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
I'm glad I'm not the one that gets assigned to go check out those charges and see why they didn't go off!
RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
Going to be hard and unsafe to go back into the building (under the failed dome!) to investigate, remove the unexploded-but-still-dangerous explosives now present, add more in those holes and joints, rig them for blasting, and then get back down.
If you don't remove them, then you have to find them and remove them from under the demolished rubble AFTER the second blasts go off.
RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
It also appears that the explosives detonated as planned, they just didn't cause the structure to lose enough stability to bring it down.
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Dik
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Explosives didn't work, maybe rocks will take down the Silverdome?
http://www.wnem.com/story/36987591/explosives-didn...
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https://youtu.be/9eALeA4w4cs?t=103
RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
Cross-Section
Link
Hinged Columns/Tie-downs which allow compression ring to move Engineering News Record October 1, 1981, p. 76.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/...
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/...
During Construction
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/...
Roof Addition
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/W70y7jFs3OMmm94kmX...
Source
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/...
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RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/video-second-p...
RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
Between the Lions and the building demo, seems like nothing ever went right at that place.
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I would call this a success.
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They may have been using outdated equipment.
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For those that like that sort of thing.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/d1cac96a-f2f6-4...
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RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
Actually no, nowadays they don't use electrical detonators. At least not for big jobs like this. They use detonating cord.
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RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
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Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com
RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
No. The parking lot is in use as overflow production storage for a nearby plant.
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RE: Failure of a planned failure - Pontiac Silverdome
VW is still trying to determine its strategy for dealing with the cars bought back from customers as part of the resolution to its massive diesel cheating scandal, in part because the company does not want to adversely affect the market for its used cars.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2017/09/29/...