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Post Tension Failure Florida Bridge Collapse | Engineering EXPLAINED!

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS and WILD-ASS THEORIES! I ran a test to see why the post tension rod was sticking out of the rubble. There was a problem with cracking on the pylon side of the bridge. As my homebrew experiment proves the rod must have failed during tensioning just before the bridge collapsed. Engineering Forum http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cf... Reddit.com/r/engineering ...more
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Post Tension Failure Florida Bridge Collapse | Engineering EXPLAINED!
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2018Mar 16
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS and WILD-ASS THEORIES! I ran a test to see why the post tension rod was sticking out of the rubble. There was a problem with cracking on the pylon side of the bridge. As my homebrew experiment proves the rod must have failed during tensioning just before the bridge collapsed. Engineering Forum http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cf... Reddit.com/r/engineering

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