Recent content by hokie66

Precast house of cards.

I call the way houses are built 'trickle theory'. If one load path doesn't work, another one will.

Another solar energy boondoggle. Hopefully, President Trump's team can prevent this stuff for a few years. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/energy-experts-blast-failed-billion-dollar-doe-project-financial-boondoggle-disaster

Yes, she was in the Biden White House. It does smell like DEI.

This article says the failure was in the blades, but the picture seems to show a clean break in the tower near the top. Maybe somebody forgot the bolts...

As one wag says, these things are supposed to be wind turbines, not gentle breeze generators. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/victoria-berrybank-wind-turbine-collapse/104895810

What did you mean by “95% renewables”? Surely not.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/reagan-national-airport-crash-military-black-hawk-helicopter-collides-midair-american-airlines-jet

I wonder what the H2S monitors sense. The human nose is quite a good monitor, but maybe not good enough.

'Unbonded' typically means without grout. So if that is the case, it would have required protection by other means.

Sym P. le, Your question would assume bonded post-tensioning, with inadequate grouting. Do we know that, or was it an unbonded system, with inadequate protection?

Whether cable or bars, the issue with this bridge was apparently corrosion. Does anyone know what was supposed to protect the reinforcement?

Yes, when I saw the damage done in Western NC, I immediately thought of Camille. Nelson County VA has very similar topography to those areas in NC. The western NC flooding is not really unexpected. The same thing happened in 1916 to Asheville. They thought they were more ready this time, but...

Not strictly applicable to the US, but we have flooding in Australia as well. Experience here was that after any major event, there were arguments about what was covered. Riverine flooding, storm surge, overland flash flooding, storm water drain blockage, etc. Most insurance companies have...

The Democrat response to Project 2025 is a sign that they are desperate. The Heritage Foundation think tank has been producing documents like this for 50 years, and never before have the Democrats been so strident and dishonest about the conservative goals.