Structural engineer Ken Davis reacts to the bridge collapse in Baltimore and how long it could take to replace.
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How did this ship bring down a bridge like dominoes? I think this lady has no idea how heavy and unstoppable a cargo ship is. That is alot of stored energy that must go somewhere. And that's a truss bridge, it relies on itself for structural support. Using angles to redirect the force of gravity to those columns. Any loss anywhere on that truss will make it collapse about the same way.
Really the beast way to protect those bridges is to have an island barricade around the columns. Don't even have to be all around, just forward and back. Alot of bridges have them.
The problem is with the ship not the bridge. This interviewer is awful.
This was no accident
Anyone with a brain knows why this happened
Just think building 7!
This is just a sad, spoonfed version of what is quite obviously a "failure?", of the ships power.
She is trying so hard to get him to blame someone. He didn't bite
Jet feul can't melt steel beams.
Would In.dia tolerate it if one of their major bridges was taken out by an American ship?
Speeds up, CHANGE course & lined up with support pylon.
The govermwnt offered to pay for it to keep insurance investigation from happening. Hum, i wonder why they wanted no outside investigation
Either make the pilars strong enough to outstand a possible collision, or build, calculated "pilar-protector-islands" on both sides to prevent such events! Just a European suggestion to Americans, who are famous of "drying their cats in microwave oven" actions.
Engineer.."A pillar mustve gotten hit"
🤦♂️..Jesus Christ
There's already a video a guy made showing that that same type boat will still turn even with the lights "flickering".
Looks like that explosion might have done it open your eyes smoke just just don't come from metal 😂
The shipping company needs to pay for this
This is what happens when you award construction contracts based on EDI, instead of real qualifications and experience.
What was on the ship and who's going to build the bridge that's who we need to look at lets open our eyes follow the money it doesn't make take a genius to figure it out lol😂😅😅😂😂
Inside job
Trump 2024
Why did the bridge collapse?… The ship was over 984 feet long and 95,000 tons empty.
It has a capacity listed as over 9,500 20' shipping containers.
Each of those 20' containers weighs around 5,000 pounds empty and are capable of around 67,000 pounds maximum capacity each.
Running cover!
Again!
😤
Accidently on Purpose .
The piers are constructed in the most minimalist way. The piers would be okay if row boats and small water craft had a collision with them .
I wonder is interviewers train to have their heavy breathing heard by the mike… Seriously, was she so shocked the bridge would take a year to be rebuilt?
Non convi
America looks so weak. A minor accident shuts down the economy?
Come on now !? Intentional and purposeful ! Was steered right to it !
I call "BULLSHYT!"
Why doesn't Biden want the insurance companies to investigate this?
🌫️
How abput the 2 explosions on the bridge at impact. Explain what was exploding, on a brdige.
It's a continuous span truss bridge. Truss bridges are used in this application because you can span wider channels with less bridge. Essentially, you don't need as many piers and less reinforcing in the bridge members. The downside to a truss bridge is that it's defined as "frature critical." All members rely on each other for support. There's little redundancy in truss bridges compared to other style bridges. The pier wasn't needed to be heavily reinforced since the truss bridge is lighter than a typical concrete bridge.
The continuous span truss bridge was used for this application, but the continuous span truss bridge is the reason it collapsed. I would see it replaced with a cable stay bridge. Dolphins will most likely be placed around the piers.
The NTSB investigation may result in a federal law requiring dolphins or other protection around bridge piers.
it was full steam ahead right into the bridge, pretty obvious.
Strategically placed dolphins could have prevented this. This should have been addressed long ago.
Nobody has been reported as being fired for any of this.The investigation is going to take two years? The bridge rebuild will take as much as ten years? For a bridge built from '72-77 will old technology? Not "sus" at all,right?
Dinomite chargese ery section joint.