RE: Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
March 16, 2018 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2018 at 11:02 am by Anomalocaris.)
This bridge doesn’t sound that expensive. The budgeted cost is 9 million according to CNN. Where I use to work a new bouncy cheap ass cantilever steel walkway that can give people vertigo walking upon it and spanning only 4 lanes of traffic cost $3.8 million, while the collapsed portion of this bridge is only half of the entire bridge design and it already span 8 lanes of traffic, and the whole thing is less than 3 times more expensive.
You mean it failed to fail for a whole 5 day.
I still think there is no evidence the basic design is unsound. It sounds like the procedure for installing it and testing it is the problem. The absence of the suspension cables, which presumably wasn’t meant by the designer to be purely decorative, probably had a lot to do with the collapse.
(March 16, 2018 at 10:51 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(March 16, 2018 at 10:46 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Not much profit in failure.
You think they planned on the bridge failing? It worked for five days as planned.
You mean it failed to fail for a whole 5 day.
I still think there is no evidence the basic design is unsound. It sounds like the procedure for installing it and testing it is the problem. The absence of the suspension cables, which presumably wasn’t meant by the designer to be purely decorative, probably had a lot to do with the collapse.
