Gwideman...your picture
As mentioned in my last post...the area you have blocked out in blue...there is a square block of concrete gone in the top section of the deck. The pipe 2 on each side of member 11 have not been grouted. It looks like 11 sheared and punched out a square. This is...
I'm with you Dik. We learn from our failures. We pick up the pieces and fail foward. We will all learn from this.
This design was beautiful. I liked the simplicity in the way the they used the canopy as the top CHORD...the sleek deck as the bottom CHORD. Keep in mind the south end had more...
After watching the video that Meerkat 007 supplied. Around 0:17 seconds we see something protrude out from back side of the interface of member 12, 11, & the deck (bottom chord). My thoughts earlier were this was the end of the PT Bar that possibly broke while being de-stressed. In the roll-in...
This is my first post, so bear with me. Based off the proposed the transporter was moved and caused #11 to be prestressed. I assume 2 PT bars ( and the pictures show 2) let us assume 280K each. That gives 560k of compression. Now let us set the structure. We all can agree #11 is now a...
