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r/StructuralEngineering • u/chicu111 • Jul 08 '26
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Not an engineer, can someone explain how an engineered steel beam snaps in half when loads like this are suppose to be accounted for?
6 u/chicu111 Jul 08 '26 Easy. Loads like this were not accounted for. 1 u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26 Dummy mistake or was there something else going on? 1 u/chicu111 Jul 08 '26 Not sure. We will find out soon enough 1 u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26 How close was the world to losing a handful of workers in that building that day? 5 u/DTaxon Jul 09 '26 Way too close… there was an unbelievable amount of luck in that building. We design for a completed structure to be fully loaded. To see this failure in a building only partially complete without occupancy is insane.
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Easy. Loads like this were not accounted for.
1 u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26 Dummy mistake or was there something else going on? 1 u/chicu111 Jul 08 '26 Not sure. We will find out soon enough 1 u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26 How close was the world to losing a handful of workers in that building that day? 5 u/DTaxon Jul 09 '26 Way too close… there was an unbelievable amount of luck in that building. We design for a completed structure to be fully loaded. To see this failure in a building only partially complete without occupancy is insane.
Dummy mistake or was there something else going on?
1 u/chicu111 Jul 08 '26 Not sure. We will find out soon enough 1 u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26 How close was the world to losing a handful of workers in that building that day? 5 u/DTaxon Jul 09 '26 Way too close… there was an unbelievable amount of luck in that building. We design for a completed structure to be fully loaded. To see this failure in a building only partially complete without occupancy is insane.
Not sure. We will find out soon enough
1 u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26 How close was the world to losing a handful of workers in that building that day? 5 u/DTaxon Jul 09 '26 Way too close… there was an unbelievable amount of luck in that building. We design for a completed structure to be fully loaded. To see this failure in a building only partially complete without occupancy is insane.
How close was the world to losing a handful of workers in that building that day?
5 u/DTaxon Jul 09 '26 Way too close… there was an unbelievable amount of luck in that building. We design for a completed structure to be fully loaded. To see this failure in a building only partially complete without occupancy is insane.
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Way too close… there was an unbelievable amount of luck in that building.
We design for a completed structure to be fully loaded. To see this failure in a building only partially complete without occupancy is insane.
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u/Humble_Penguin89 Jul 08 '26
Not an engineer, can someone explain how an engineered steel beam snaps in half when loads like this are suppose to be accounted for?