So, a high end mall collapsed in Mexico City.

"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer) 07/12/2018 at 13:38 • Filed to: None

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I can’t wait to see Nolan’s take on the fall of the Oligarchies. Ignoring of course that there’s still a person unaccounted for.

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My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Spanfeller is a twat 07/12/2018 at 14:09

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Was there an earthquake or is this an engineering failure?

Spanfeller is a twat > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 07/12/2018 at 14:12

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Engineering; the project was plagued with faults from the very begining.

They knew it was going to collapse too; the police had already cordoned up the area. Despite that it was reported that a person inside the mal was still unaccounted for. Les hope no bad happened. 

Urambo Tauro > Spanfeller is a twat 07/12/2018 at 14:41

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Spanfeller is a twat > Urambo Tauro 07/12/2018 at 14:50

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Or as Hamilton Nolan would say “THE FACADE OF RUTHLESS CAPITALISM FELL UNDER THE GUISE OF A CRITICAL POPULATION. THIS IS HOW IT BEGINS”

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My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Spanfeller is a twat 07/12/2018 at 15:16

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It still amazes that it doesn’t matter what country on earth you live in this kind of thing happens.

Spanfeller is a twat > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 07/12/2018 at 15:19

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Oh, the head of Civil Protection said they accounted for everyone already. No deaths!

otherwise. Yes, it’s tragic how even a small mistake can tare down a large structure. This was a big ass cantilever (the kind architects love) and clearly the structural engineers forgot how to do their work.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Spanfeller is a twat 07/12/2018 at 15:28

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Glad nobody was hurt or killed, it speaks highly for the local authorities who spotted the issue and evacuated the area preventing a mass casualty event.

Spanfeller is a twat > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 07/12/2018 at 15:33

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I mean, they suck normally. But yeah, they’ve handled stuff like this surprisingly well, specially the earthquake in September,  Far better than the blunder in 1985.

WiscoProud > Spanfeller is a twat 07/12/2018 at 16:16

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I’m pretty liberal, but Nolan irritates even me. 

Spanfeller is a twat > WiscoProud 07/12/2018 at 16:17

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I think he did a good piece on the blue exit (was it him?) and I enjoyed his review of the Lexus GSF but otherwise a nutjob

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Spanfeller is a twat 07/13/2018 at 00:43

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I’m curious what flaw wasn’t accounted for. 

Spanfeller is a twat > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 07/13/2018 at 00:54

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Probably the structural engineers were too cocky about the cantilever. Also, the structure was probably made out of sub par steel and they got, again, cocky with the forces that steel was meant to handle.

Don’t quote me on this (I have not been through material sciences courses yet) but steel fails catastrophically much more easily than concrete. Steel allows for a much faster construction (specially for cantilevers) but you have the issue that it’s not as good structurally as far as I’ve been able to understand.

We had a structural engineer fuck up a calculation on a cantilever in a project,but it was made out of concrete and it sinked a little rather than collapsing fully. Granted, we caught the error early on and we fixed it (it fucked up the cantilever from the original design but I mean, safety first!)