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    FIU Bridge Update - New Bridge Has Broken Ground

    If the design is as described, that is structurally dishonest, as was the previous design.
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    External anchorage of reinforcement - is this feasible?

    Bridge, There is nothing at all wrong with your concept. It is exactly what we sometimes have to do with the bars in a corbel where they can't be adequately anchored otherwise. Some people here are confusing development with anchorage.
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    Ottawa Parking Garage Collapse

    Precast house of cards.
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    Give me your wisdom: how is plasterboard used in your practice?

    I call the way houses are built 'trickle theory'. If one load path doesn't work, another one will.
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    Famous eng-tips member interviewed about hydrogen on the ABC

    Another solar energy boondoggle. Hopefully, President Trump's team can prevent this stuff for a few years. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/energy-experts-blast-failed-billion-dollar-doe-project-financial-boondoggle-disaster
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    AA jet and Military helicopter collide over Potomac

    Yes, she was in the Biden White House. It does smell like DEI.
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    Wind turbine collapse in Victoria, Australia

    This article says the failure was in the blades, but the picture seems to show a clean break in the tower near the top. Maybe somebody forgot the bolts...
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    Wind turbine collapse in Victoria, Australia

    As one wag says, these things are supposed to be wind turbines, not gentle breeze generators. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/victoria-berrybank-wind-turbine-collapse/104895810
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    France 95% renewable last year

    What did you mean by “95% renewables”? Surely not.
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    AA jet and Military helicopter collide over Potomac

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/reagan-national-airport-crash-military-black-hawk-helicopter-collides-midair-american-airlines-jet
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    H2S release kills 1 at PEMEX Houston Refinery

    I wonder what the H2S monitors sense. The human nose is quite a good monitor, but maybe not good enough.
  12. hokie66

    Bridge Collapse in Dresden

    'Unbonded' typically means without grout. So if that is the case, it would have required protection by other means.
  13. hokie66

    Bridge Collapse in Dresden

    Sym P. le, Your question would assume bonded post-tensioning, with inadequate grouting. Do we know that, or was it an unbonded system, with inadequate protection?
  14. hokie66

    Bridge Collapse in Dresden

    Whether cable or bars, the issue with this bridge was apparently corrosion. Does anyone know what was supposed to protect the reinforcement?
  15. hokie66

    FEMA's Outdated Flood Zone Maps

    Yes, when I saw the damage done in Western NC, I immediately thought of Camille. Nelson County VA has very similar topography to those areas in NC. The western NC flooding is not really unexpected. The same thing happened in 1916 to Asheville. They thought they were more ready this time, but...
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