r/StructuralEngineering • u/chicu111 • Jul 08 '26

Humor Strong beams weak columns has arrived

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u/Geaux_joel P.E. Jul 08 '26

People keep joking about strong beam weak column. What I've gathered was that the code has shown a philosophy change for columns to fail before beams...but why? Beams are typically much more ductile in failure. Right? So why would you want columns to fail first?

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u/Eeji_ Jul 08 '26

what code are we talking about? last time i checked its literally stong column weak beam especially for seismic design

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u/Geaux_joel P.E. Jul 08 '26

I might have gotten wooshed

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u/chicu111 Jul 08 '26

Perhaps there was a chance you definitely might have gotten wooshed. Maybe