Steel Maker Challenges Safety Results Amid Earthquake Probe

[MikeandDow]

with out seeing the specs for the project do not know what type of steel was used !! was boron added ? just plain carbon steel ??  both types of steel are used in rebar and have diffrent propertys and different applications  so its all assumptions ? there are many test yet to be done before you can say the rebar was unsuitable for the project or not

[impulse]

1 hour ago, MikeandDow said:

with out seeing the specs for the project do not know what type of steel was used !! was boron added ? just plain carbon steel ??  both types of steel are used in rebar and have diffrent propertys and different applications  so its all assumptions ? there are many test yet to be done before you can say the rebar was unsuitable for the project or not

 

I think Anutin was smart when he said the investigations would take months.  Both the collapsed building and inspecting thousands of other buildings for damage.

 

I'm just a mechanical engineer (not civil), but I suspect the reason the building collapsed was the state of construction where not all of the structural members were in place yet.  But I'll wait for the full investigation.  Though I have little confidence that we'll ever really know.  Too many powerful entities stand to lose too much if the truth goes against them.

 

[MikeandDow]

16 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I think Anutin was smart when he said the investigations would take months.  Both the collapsed building and inspecting thousands of other buildings for damage.

 

I'm just a mechanical engineer (not civil), but I suspect the reason the building collapsed was the state of construction where not all of the structural members were in place yet.  But I'll wait for the full investigation.  Though I have little confidence that we'll ever really know.  Too many powerful entities stand to lose too much if the truth goes against them.

 

If you read the news you will see that the building was topped out  which means it was  structurally complete no more concrete pours in april 2024 the concrete was a year old max cured, looking at the photos there is one test i would do first off is concrete bonding test to ASTM  lots of rebar bare no bonding to concrete