Oopsie doopsie: when different engineers get very different numbers...

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[stavanzer]

Math is hard.

The "real world" is unforgiving....

[Oldcarfan27]

"See son, that is why you need to stay in school, get good grades and study hard to do well on those geometry tests. Yes, you will need to use it someday!"

[Dave Ambrose]

I watched this video. I wish he'd gone into more detail about the deficiencies, but the ones he did cover were appalling. I'm a software engineer, but even I know better than that.  

[Ace-Garageguy]

41 minutes ago, Dave Ambrose said:

I watched this video. I wish he'd gone into more detail about the deficiencies, but the ones he did cover were appalling. I'm a software engineer, but even I know better than that.  

What's even more appalling is that nobody in the internal company chain of command caught anything earlier. Some of the stuff would be obvious to anyone who'd even built a birdhouse, but unfortunately, the value of "engineers" having some kind of real-world hands-on experience is no longer considered "relevant".

Just fire up the "Letz Dezyn a Brij" app on the phone, and have at it.

EDIT: It's heartening, though, that somebody in the Texas DOT caught the problems and spoke up before a failure like the cited Florida pedestrian bridge, but on a massive scale.

Edited October 1, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[kermn8r]

Oops.  Reminds me of the time the tower gantry crane fell down in high winds during construction of the Hoover Dam bypass bridge. It took way longer than I thought it should for construction to resume for recovery from a crane accident.  My personal belief is something about the crane accident, possibly higher winds than expected due to local geography, caused a relook and changes to the bridge design. Nobody was talking about anything other than blaming the crane collapse on a mobile crane hitting a stay of one of the gantry towers.