There's no way to protect a bridge completely from ship strike, engineering expert says
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2024
- An engineering expert says there would be no economically feasible way to protect a bridge from a large ship strike like what happened with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and he's not even sure it would perform successfully in a similar incident. #baltimore #maryland #news #bridgecollapse #bridge
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They could have used tugs until completely clear of the bridge.
That's what I was thinking. All large vessels would be assigned Tug Boats until they reach open ocean or at least away from structures.
BINGO! they are trying to skim past that fact. Keep up the pressure. The fact that it happened shows us that they are not concerned for the safety of the US citizens. Having that port closed is going to cause major shipping issues. everyday is making it worse.People need to demand that the Ship be moved, the debris cleaned up and the port get back to functioning properly with tugs escorting the ships out and in. no excuses.
Lots of engineering "experts" on here. 😂😂😂😂
@@vipermad358 sounds like commen sense rather than "engineering". Too bad you have none.
Made in 🇺🇲. Cereal dreg.
That's what happens when you fund wars instead of infrastructure.
"They're rarely less than 10 years" directly after citing 2 projects that took only 50% and 70% of that makes this person rather silly.
Not true!
I don't see any fenders around the support structures
take the idea of stuff like atms or entrances to walmart. They have these concrete poles sticking outta the ground to prevent cars from hitting the entrance or striking the atm. That concept would work but it would have to be farther out and there would have to be multiple rows of whatever that is designed to stop impact obviously it's going to be more complex than the real world example i brought up
It is criminal not to have a alert system (loud voice/bright flashing lights) to warn those around in case things like this happens.
It could have run on its own backup power. Should be mandatory.
I am sure it had been brought up by someone in a boardroom meeting, but they thought it was too expensive.
always new with ideas
Please tell that "engineer" to look at the cheap collision protection walls the powerlines have that are just feet away from the bridge!!!
Best is to do under water tunnel 4 lane each side yes would cost at the start but at long run would pay on its own and be much sate for ships navigating then
That's total BS! *"They"* could have, but *"they"* chose not to because of the cost. How's that working for you now?
Decades of poor planning; that accident was completely preventable.
Who are some of these working for ?
Some of who?
Tug boat escorts
BS. Rock and Pylon Skirt islands properly done can protect bridge supports from any ship strike.
This is dumb why not put tugs on these ships with local pilots stop worrying about bridges especially when you don't know nothing about it
Cheap bridge. Too long.
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welcome to maryland
Are you ten years old?
that's talking gibberish and some nonsense in order to cover up american failures lol
This skip was steered into the bridge on purpose.
Plus there was explosives in the girders that went off also.
To help bring down the bridge
lad, not everything is some grand conspiracy theory. there'll be an engineering report in 6 months to 24 months that'll show there was some critical maintenance on the ship put off because of expenses, like there always is, and it won't get nearly the same media attention
@@j377yb33n these slips have multiple steering functions redundancy is key.
They can be steered even in power down situations.
And secondly do NOT talk to me like that unless you can disprove what's already common knowledge in the shipping industry.
There's supposed to be a guide ship and tug boats to that is a conspiracy that you're avoiding
@@patrickpearl169 yeah, and just like every armchair engineer here all we have to go on is the video footage of the ship without power, the plume of smoke from the exhaust just after lights kick back in as it hits the support truss, and the mayday the ship put out before their power failure.
Just like almost every other large American disaster like this, it's some maintenance procedure or that engineers requested get resolved and was cut for cost reduction(like east Palestine), or some kind of human error.
Just because the american media was whipped into a paranoid fervour with your double bill of middle east wars doesn't mean that every disaster is the act of some malevolent set of bad actors - corporate profits are more than capable of causing that destruction