On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:34:18 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes
wrote:
> Take a hell of a bollard to stop a 100,000 tonne hammer moving at 8
> knots. Let's call it 850 MJ, or over 200 lbs of TNT in bomb form.
units says it's 1693.7798 megaJ and 809.64615 lb tnt -- quite a lot of
energy to dissipate.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:36:24 + "dan penoff.com via Mercedes"
wrote:
> They have bollards/barriers around the supports for the Sunshine Skyway
> bridge that spans the opening of Tampa Bay into the Gulf. Previous
> bridge suffered the same fate as this one some years ago.
In 1980. This is the
> Wonder why the far right span fell as well?
Because the left side fell and broke off. That was the counterweight to the
right side.
Cut a teeter-totter in half at the middle, see what happens to BOTH sides.
What happened to this bridge is just about the worst-case scenario, except for
the
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:51:20 -0500 "M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes"
wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ
Thanks for the link.
Looking at the suggested videos on the right side of the screen, I could
spend hours (days?) looking at YouTube videos!
Craig
*Should have had bollard like things in the water to deflect so that the
support pier would have avoided the direct hit.*
I was thinking the same thing.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 2:33 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> On 26/03/2024 1:02 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
They have bollards/barriers around the supports for the Sunshine Skyway bridge
that spans the opening of Tampa Bay into the Gulf. Previous bridge suffered the
same fate as this on some years ago.
-D
> On Mar 26, 2024, at 2:32 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> On 26/03/2024 1:02
On 26/03/2024 1:02 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote:
Like a house of cards... Wonder why the far right span fell as well?
Not an engineer, but I did build a bridge out of balsa wood in high school
physics
Anyway, the deal with these truss bridges is that the truss through compression
On 26/03/2024 12:40 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:22:54 -0400 Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
wrote:
Wow. Incredible.
Moment Baltimore bridge collapses after being hit by ship
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68663488
The captain of the ship is in a whole lot
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, at 12:57, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
> Lloyds of London insurance company stock just took a giant hit, I wager
> [assuming they are the ins carrier for the shipping company..]
> Since there were cars on the bridge, any count on how many folks died in
> this disaster?
It was
I was seeing maybe 20 but there were a few survivors too
--FT
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> On Mar 26, 2024, at 1:58 PM, G Mann via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Lloyds of London insurance company stock just took a giant hit, I wager
> [assuming they are the ins carrier for the shipping company..]
> Since there
> Like a house of cards... Wonder why the far right span fell as well?
Not an engineer, but I did build a bridge out of balsa wood in high school
physics
Anyway, the deal with these truss bridges is that the truss through compression
and tension on its frame transfers the load of the
Lloyds of London insurance company stock just took a giant hit, I wager
[assuming they are the ins carrier for the shipping company..]
Since there were cars on the bridge, any count on how many folks died in
this disaster?
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 10:52 AM M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 10:25 AM Andrew Strasfogel
wrote:
> Like a house of cards... Wonder why the far right span fell as well?
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 8:50 AM M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> I drove on
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:22:54 -0400 Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
wrote:
> Wow. Incredible.
>
> Moment Baltimore bridge collapses after being hit by ship
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68663488
The captain of the ship is in a whole lot of trouble!
Lawyers are going to have a
Like a house of cards... Wonder why the far right span fell as well?
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 8:50 AM M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I drove on that bridge a few times when I lived back East...
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 7:43 AM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
>
I drove on that bridge a few times when I lived back East...
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 7:43 AM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Yea
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 26, 2024, at 7:23 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wow.
"It's fallen in the wah-tah!" - Little Jim
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 7:23 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Wow. Incredible.
>
> Moment Baltimore bridge collapses after being hit by ship
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68663488
>
> —FT
>
> Sent from
Yea
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 26, 2024, at 7:23 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Wow. Incredible.
>
> Moment Baltimore bridge collapses after being hit by ship
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68663488
>
> —FT
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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