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Anyone here familiar with that sort of demolition work who can tell me why you'd want to spend months slowly chipping away at something like that as opposed to a explosively-triggered implosion?
Anyone here familiar with that sort of demolition work who can tell me why you'd want to spend months slowly chipping away at something like that as opposed to a explosively-triggered implosion?
That specific site was in Germany and the article mentioned once they reduced the height it could be demolished via a normal process (I assumed implosion). Maybe it’s a law specific to Germany, or the EU that requires it.
"Kinetic Disassembly" is not too far off of a term used to describe an exploding lithium ion battery pack in an official compliance testing report my team commissioned recently. I wish I could remember the exact term, I think it was something alond the lines of "rapid thermal disassembly".
"Kinetic Disassembly" is not too far off of a term used to describe an exploding lithium ion battery pack in an official compliance testing report my team commissioned recently. I wish I could remember the exact term, I think it was something alond the lines of "rapid thermal disassembly".
This reminds me of an event about 20 years ago, during the UL certification process for the power supply that PR&E was designing for the Airwave audio console.
It was the last big linear supply that we did. After that, we went with switchers.
Anyway, the lab decided that as part of the validation, they'd bypass the overcurrent protector, short-circuit the output, and apply unlimited current to the input.
The inspectors' report read, in part: "Smoke and flames were observed to radiate from the device."
This reminds me of an event about 20 years ago, during the UL certification process for the power supply that PR&E was designing for the Airwave audio console.
It was the last big linear supply that we did. After that, we went with switchers.
Anyway, the lab decided that as part of the validation, they'd bypass the overcurrent protector, short-circuit the output, and apply unlimited current to the input.
The inspectors' report read, in part: "Smoke and flames were observed to radiate from the device."
Lol, right?! "Disabled all protections, went to extreme operating conditions, some stuff of minor note occurred."
They test this stuff in something akin to a bomb shelter too.
Last edited by Ted75zcar; Jan 11, 2020 at 08:08 PM.
So now we know that our tax dollars, in some small part, pay the salary of a federal chicken foot inspector.
At least for some meat, the USDA charges the company whose products are being inspected for the inspection service. Of course all that means is that the cost is passed on to the consumer, but it's not tax dollars directly.
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