pretty sure that he said - 1 column failed near the pool due to poor construction and poor design - that took out 2 beams that ruined 2 connections in the wall - the wall then went down taking the whole bld down
we look at the situation this way - picture the bld as a house of cards - and some of the cards are overstressed because they are oriented wrong - and the connections between the cards are weak - and then some of the cards get wet - it should not come as a surprise that a failure of one column gets spread throughout the entire bld - unless you specifically design the bld such that the failure of one column will NOT bring down the entire bld I imagine that you would have to make the structural members and their connections very strong to resist a collapse or large impact load -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKY%3D4tyzE-hpm%3DGg-_ndEU_wCmaWm1u_SYvORkJ9FHV62g%40mail.gmail.com.
