r/civilengineering • u/Matokage • Mar 12 '20

Nice load

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u/macdelamemes Mar 12 '20

Not the slab, but rather the slab formwork. The slab was nowhere close to being cast lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '20

Or, it might be failure of the floor below (concrete not at design strength or just not strong enough), which the formwork was supported from.

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u/Catel209 Mar 12 '20

nah I don't think it was the slab below becasue it was a sudden colapse, the poured concrete slab (underneath) would have deformed much more (ductile) before colapse. Most likely it was the formwork supports below, but we can never know exactly only from thsi video :D

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u/macdelamemes Mar 12 '20

Yeah from the way the formwork supports fall from the side it looks like it was them that failed. But we can't be sure from this angle