MSP bridge collapse...
#6
Errrr....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/bri...ure/index.html
The plane aspect makes me worry for the engineer
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/bri...ure/index.html
The plane aspect makes me worry for the engineer
#7
Errrr....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/bri...ure/index.html
The plane aspect makes me worry for the engineer
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/bri...ure/index.html
The plane aspect makes me worry for the engineer
By the way, 16% of all bridges in the US are classified as structurally deficient. Doesn't mean we can close them all. I just hope we don't have too many of these types of accidents to wake up the DOTs, and lead them away from their "lowest bidder" requirement and segregated approach to design and construction.
edit: If you want a real scare about the state of our bridges, read the ASCE State of the Infrastructure report card. Or, there was an interesting article published in the August 2003 Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities by some guys at OSU that does some statistical analysis of US bridge failures. Scary stuff
Last edited by Atlanta93LE; 08-02-2007 at 03:25 PM.
#11
It's not the other engineers we have to keep quiet to...it's when you're dealing with high-profile catastrophes and governments are involved. That's when the ambulance-chaser equivalents and media come out searching for anywhere to point a finger. "What, don't you trust your own employees? Or are you just too cheap?"
I just finished up a project for the Japanese government, and you wouldn't believe how hush-hush I have to be about that one. Things are even more sensitive over there.
Just remember...the technical side of engineering is the easy part. Any trained monkey (read: tech school grad.) can crunch numbers or analyze a model. It's people that cause real the challenges.
I just finished up a project for the Japanese government, and you wouldn't believe how hush-hush I have to be about that one. Things are even more sensitive over there.
Just remember...the technical side of engineering is the easy part. Any trained monkey (read: tech school grad.) can crunch numbers or analyze a model. It's people that cause real the challenges.
#15
In light of this tragedy someone wrote an article about the 110 bridges in CO that are on a "watch list." One particularly high volume stretch will become a 200-300 million dollar project when it is renovated/replaced. We currently have $35 million budgeted for bridges this year. Now with all the money we spend on homeland security so that terrorists don't blow up bridges and what not, what's the ******* point when there's no room in the budget to keep them from coming down on their own? Fucked up.
Atlanta, were you part of the investigation into the C470 overpass failure near Golden that killed a family?
Atlanta, were you part of the investigation into the C470 overpass failure near Golden that killed a family?
#16
As to your other point...it's been common knowledge in the civil engineering community for decades that the infrastructure is basically dead. And they haven't kept it a secret...they've been lobbying this whole time. But estimates are that it would cost many trillions of dollars to get us to a passing grade of "C"