Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Design might have left bridge vulnerable | David Knight
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- The 'continous structure' of the Francis Scott Key bridge could have been a cause for the 'cascading structural failure' that led to collapse after it was hit by a cargo ship, David Knight tells #timesradio
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As a civil engineer I must remember to build my bridges with the ability to withstand 10,000+ tonnes of ship at 10mph.
That should make the bridges feasible and affordable.
Or the port authority could assign tugs to each ship coming in so that if the ships power goes out its still able to be maneuvered.
I mean at that rate they would be better to just move the port away from the bridge
first sane person I’ve seen in the 20 comments I’ve seen last
Are you kidding me? A massive fully loaded container ship loses power and rudder control and rams into a bridge at 8 knots. You blame a design flaw? I guess if you lose control of your car and run into a wall you'd blame it on a design flaw? Your thought process has a major design flaw.
In other countries, the bridge piers are designed for ship impact in a similar situation where ships can impact the piers. In other countries bridge piers are also designed for vehicle impact. It is part of the design codes for bridges in Europe for example.
There are thousands of ships going under the bridge during its lifetime. Sooner or later a failure / human error WILL happen. It's more or less a certainty and you need to design for it. That said the main culprit is of course the ship or the ships captain.
Amazing how accepting Americans are of things that are preventable.
They have poor infrastructure for a developed country, and worse safety records than many developed countries (for example, the UK does better on road safety, fire safety, safety at work, the list goes on).
When will people start to ask questions?
@@andreaswiklund7197the ship had a power outage, so most likely the ships issue
@@clairenoon4070 many parts of America legitimately look like 3rd world countries now with the crumbling infrastructure
I'm surprised the pillars didn't have angled concrete to deflect any craft and strong currents, most do...
Max weight fully loaded 110 000 tons. Let's think about that. 🤦🏻♂️
😂 let's blame the design engineer and not to giant boat that crashed into the bridge. Makes perfect sense. 😅
the boats design issue at least, it was a technical issue
How can the design be responsible for an out of control ship!!!
the design flaw would be that it wasn't crash proof ?
Genoa is another major event.
Could the ship be re-deployed in the Sea of Asov?
The important thing is to keep taxes low becythe government will waste it on infrastructure, health and education when it could be spent on mansions and yachts.
I wonder if russia will blame ukraine and the west like they have for the moscow shooting recently!
The bridge piers should have been designed for ship impact as most bridges in this situation are.
There is some good commentary about this which show the ship lost power just before impact. There is a dramatic turn which is attributed to the crew putting the engine into reverse to stop the ship. There are also accounts of of an anchor being dropped in an attempt to stop which would also have changed the ships direction.
If someone for one moment thought that there was a design flaw, surely it might have proved helpful to raise this point prior to this.
This is "expert wisdom." It plagues the whole world today.
😂😂😂 funny how being struck by an enormous object weighing thousands of tons is a 'design fault'. Someone on the ship fkd up, there's the problem.
A ship colliding with a pier of the bridge would have been among the risks considered when the bridge was designed.
Hindsight is 20/20, but the piers of this bridge were not up to the task of fending off a 95,000 ton container vessel. Everyone responsible for bridges over waterways should be reaching for the manual and calculating the risks afresh. Some bridges are closed to traffic when ships pass beneath them. The risk of impact will never be zero…..
For now, this is a major tragedy for everyone directly affected by death, injury or loss. Thoughts with them all, and their families and those working to search for the missing.
FBI should investigate the crews.
The crew warned they lost control. Thus saving more lives. What's the matter with you
the ship, tried to reverse and drop the anchor. that’s why it turned. they did as much as they could and probably saved those 2 lives due to it
Bridges have a right to defend themselves
"design might have left bridge vulnerable" its a giant cargo ship
Can't believe what im hearing 😂
Why go so fast that losing power would leave this type of thing inevitable?
It’s more about the momentum, they were travelling at a normal speed but the thing is thousands of tonnes. Trying to stop anything that heavy is tough, let alone on water
Not freezing. 9C. Hence survivors.
It was 4C in Baltimore when it hit this morning. That is bitter weather to be falling into water. Not a long survival time.
Sergey 52 years old from Ukraina 😂😂
Was the ship's captain from the Ukraine?
Putin did it . Putin was the ship’s captain, and they never interviewed him.
Well there’s a contract the Brits can’t get, now that they have no Iron and Steel industry.
Bridges don't collapse like this in the UK. Western Europe as a whole has far better, safer infrastructure.
@@clairenoon4070 Which U.K. bridges in the U.K. are you thinking of Claire ? ( the Tay Bridge ) ( School roofs ) (Ronan Point ) ( Wikipedia…Bridge collapses in the U.K. )
However if a bridge , large or small, a footbridge , a bridge to Northern Ireland which Johnson in his finest Etonian accent spaffed at the U.K. public, or similar structure needs replacing, the U.K. no longer has the industrial capacity to replace it without importing the steel. That is the point I’m making .
The Baltimore Bridge , as a bridge was fine, but it was provided with an inadequate protection system from a vessel of this size, and that is all there is to it.
Well no problem. They have tons of structural engineers coming in everyday via the southern border. 3 weeks and jobs a goodun’
Design design flaw 😂😂😂 container ship capacity
gross tonnage and 52,150 in net tonnage,
Those Houthis at it again
If you snapped your leg you would fall
Was Biden captaining the boat ?
What a fkn disaster!!
Blaming everything but the crew screams DEI
They tried to stop it in any way they could
Joey
storm shadow find its target ...... LOL
Tha ship aimed for the peir and I think the peir has been intentionally weakened?
no they tried to reverse and drop their anchor which turned the ship
We have to blame the Russians for this! 😂
lol....looks like GAZA in water...ha HA...
and captain of the sheep is UKRAINE 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
That isn't true, but well done on displaying your inability to evaluate sources.
what bridge?