Engineering mistakes 1

[IRstuff]

It's not at all clear from the record that the Kansas City engineers were even concerned about cost. They were simply negligent. The contractor's change was motivated by cost, because, without the changes they made they would have had to thread something like 40 ft of stock, which would have taken both time and manpower. Even if the contractor hadn't made the change, the basic design was insufficiently margined.

TTFN

 

[rday]

jabberwocky,

I hear you about the engineering disater shows. I was watching one talking about some houses in CA sliding off a hill. On the show they stated that all the homes that moved were built before engineering was required (ie NO engineering). How is it an engineering disaster, if there was no engineering?

Rik

 

[eric1037]

FYI

Purity Distilling Company tank, 1919

This is a topic in the new PE magazine from NSPE and will be a topic at the conference in Boston.