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The real problem is that it seems a small collapse of the open area next to the pool over a parking level propagated to a large portion of the structure in seco
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 5y ago
The real problem is that it seems a small collapse of the open area next to the pool over a parking level propagated to a large portion of the structure in seconds.
I suspect slabs coming off pillars took away horizontal support from pillars on the "good" side of the slab. Then those pillars came away from adjacent slabs.
There's a number of warehouse rack collapses where a single failure takes down all of them. I suspect a similar mechanism.
- lupire 5y agoCascading failure isn't just for computer networks anymore!