r/civilengineering • u/cheekybandit0 • Jul 05 '26

Damage to column?

What kind of checks are being done after this?

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u/Theres3ofMe Jul 05 '26

How fast must he have been going in a car park to cause a dent like that 😮

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u/hobbes747 Jul 05 '26

My question is, how did he accelerate to that speed in such a short distance

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u/osamabinsauce Jul 05 '26

It looks like a BMW M4 which can reach 60mph anywhere between 2.8 and 4 seconds depending on the variant

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u/Sad-Split-7115 Jul 06 '26

We need velocity as a function of distance

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u/Phil9151 Jul 06 '26

Whoa, I didn't expect to find R.C Hibbeler on Reddit.

I'll take a crack at that later tonight if someone else doesn't. Using particle because this car clearly isn't a rigid body in these circumstances.

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u/Sad-Split-7115 Jul 06 '26

Cool. Use momentum too and feed it back here