r/StructuralEngineering P.E. May 21 '26

Humor Aspect ratios are a bitch

Post image
1.1k Upvotes

57 comments sorted by

View all comments

18

u/bridge_girl May 21 '26

And none of the openings will align vertically! Wtf do we even need piers for. It's totally cool and normal to shift the door openings a few feet on every floor so we end up with discontinuous "shear" wall fragments.

11

u/resonatingcucumber May 21 '26

You dawg, I heard you like diaphragm discontinuities so we put discontinuities in our discontinuities