Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Lakeland, FL Doesn't Recommend Negative Outlook I worked at Hunter Crane Merchant Transport & Rigging (Less than a year) Pros if you're retired or about to retire this might be the company you want. Cons management is never on the same page with eachother or even the employees. always falling short of their promises and don't take care of the ones that take care of them
None of the other cable anchorages had pockets for post-tensioning bars though....only the last one. Wonder if the increasingly shallow angle of the cables would have created tension stresses in that anchorage point so they were going to post-tension it into compression with that bar before they installed the tower, cables, and tensioned the cables.
BUT....that anchorage is in the top compression chord of the concrete truss with the bridge in this temporary configuration....so compression stress on top of compression stress.
AND....the truss was integrated with the roof structure that didn't go to the end of the bridge. So all the compression stress would flow through the concrete at the anchorage point and then down the last diagonal of the tress to the pier at the end of the bridge.
Ethan Flores
you seem legit so heres a protip. ditch the memeflag. then we can talk.
Jack Barnes
I honestly don't know what you are telling me... this is my first post. I was just trying to get the info out, it seems to be getting shut out.
No, you're a paid shill and you have a fucking meme flag. Suck a fucking dick kike because everyone on this board is sick and tired of you jews pretending like you're anything other than shills. Do you realize nobody pays attention to anything meme flags say anymore because you're all jewish shills?
Negligence. Probably not willful. PEople are not that bright. Then you hire low-bid workers....
Austin Wood
Oh, you!
Landon Sanders
Incorrect. Why would someone pay me to disclose information?
I thought you here would enjoy this topic/information, but you attack for reasons I don't understand. Maybe you are the "paid shill"?
Christopher Jackson
>Incorrect. Why would someone pay me to disclose information?
Because it's disinfo and you're a kike shill.
Luis Taylor
Would you kindly debate what I've posted?
Luke Hill
Geographic location is turned on by default. You took the time to scroll through available flags to represent your nationality, and then chose white supremacy. Noone believes you are a white supremacist. therefore you are only doing it to hide your real country. 9/10 the people who do that are from Israel. So select geographic location or noone will care to read what you post. I would like to talk about what your posting.
Kayden Garcia
So you won't debate what I posted?
( I found and fixed your "issue")
Robert Gonzalez
Cuban Engineering.
Chase Peterson
>I worked at Hunter Crane Merchant Transport & Rigging (Less than a year) >management is never on the same page with eachother or even the employees. always falling short of their promises and don't take care of the ones that take care of them
You got shit canned for working less than the bean eaters didn't you?
Alexander Murphy
What?
I've never even been to FL. I thought a lot better of you Sup Forums before I posted. I thought you were thinkers.
Landon Adams
Thank you sir, and what a beautiful flag it is at that. Pretty far from a Jew. But yeah youll notice people being nicer and more polite with your real flag. (its still /pol tho)
okay I dont know shit about bridges but this looks intresting enough to bump until an engineer shows up. OP is not a faggot. Anons get in here.
Jaxson Davis
>I thought a lot better of you Sup Forums before I posted. I thought you were thinkers.
The meme flag suited you better I think.
Grayson Carter
Kys you jew faggot. Your people are all going to die very soon.
Dominic Hernandez
late stage capitalism
Kevin Stewart
Where did that load cell pic come from?
Jack James
Thank you. I've never posted, only taken information from Sup Forums. I didn't realize trivial things were so important. I basically derailed my own posting.
Cooper Baker
It is not from the same bridge. I was just trying to show a comparative tension application setup.
Ian Rogers
What? How is proper engineering jewish?
Jayden Adams
Yeah man. Sup Forums don't usually go for petty arguments about to prove someone right or wrong. That's what twitter or other shitty social media are for. I've only been on here for 4-5 months, myself.
You posted some super good shit tho.
Carter Campbell
Without the central tower and cables what and where would they be tensioning anything too, I don't understand.
Anthony Lopez
Concrete can't take tension (almost none at all). The bottom of a beam, or in this case, truss was in tension. The post-tensioning puts it back into compression.
The "ends" of the structure. It LOOKS like they were applying tension to end cable anchorages to the footings before they installed the tower, cables, and tensionend the cables. But this could would have greatly increased load down to the last diagonal, and snapped it like a breadstick.
Jacob Butler
Their are reasons to stress at different stages. Def could have been a legitimate stressing.
How long had the shores been taken down before they started stressing?
Grayson Johnson
so wait how did the rigging fail? Just overloaded?
Samuel Cooper
can a constructionfag or someone who'd know explain to my dumbass.... is there fuckery afoot or not? from my point of view "new" things like this bridge just don't collapse unless a human has fucked shit up.
Daniel Lopez
Of course there are "reasons". But who knows you said what on a project like this. The company has had large pieces fall in the past. Think of torquing a cyl. head out of order, but the head was made out of concrete. Too much tension on the top of the structure.
Noah Flores
Probably just incompetence and trying to save a $/speed things up.
Jackson Mitchell
damn. thanks bro.
Tyler Martin
Yes, 100% there is fuckery afoot. These things are designed with a factor of safety somewhere between 2-3. Somebody fucked up big time. It's still not clear if it's engineering or the construction guys did something they weren't supposed to at the wrong time.
One school of thought is they overstressed it. Another school says something fell from the crane. On the other hand the engineer could have accounted for loads in the wrong construciton sequence. The engineer could have just designed something shitty.
Jonathan Morgan
It would be sketchy to apply blame at this point, but I feel it lies somewhere between the new world "engineer" and the sequence of operations. In no way did this project have the correct x FoS/SF.
Landon Peterson
mechanical engineer here fuckery is defintely afoot Three reasons it could have failed, in order of likelihood: (a) crane failure, this is most likely the case, 50% minimum (b) improper installation, maybe they didnt tension it correctly, steel inside was not pretensioned correctly, concrete not allowed to cure properly etc etc .... 35% (c) shitty engineering, this is rare, not because engineers are any good, but because for civil (static) structures we generally have huge safety factors, like x5,x10, and even x20
anyways i understand it was built by niggers and spics, and mostly killed liberals, so who really cares,
Benjamin Hughes
Yeah, but I cam here in hopes of speculation. You can't get it better anywhere other than /po/
SF=0.78 >Looks good
Jeremiah Foster
SF=5 is really shitty. SF=10 will get you fired
Carson Wilson
he's reading a business review you fucking idiots
Joseph King
You are truly a P.E.? It's already be deducted down to hyd. tensioning... Unless full retards were doing the rigging. The ring was WAY undersized if they were doing what you say.
Charles Robinson
What?
Nolan Wright
The manner in which the OP wrote his blogpost about the rigging company led me to believe he was copying a review written somewhere, probably a BBB or similar website review.
Lincoln Adams
They aren't trusses they are literally a retarded cable stay they clearly never finished. Took me a while to understand why they aren't attached to anything
Levi Torres
The length to depth ratio looks very high. The lack of symmetry and the irregular columns is unsettling. I'm thinking the slab was post-tensioned (from the photos) and the anchorage slipped. If the truss was supposed to be able to span simply across the roadway without the cable supports, why were the cable supports necessary at all? In the completed structure, it looks like the truss was to be continuous, and cable stayed. So the temporary condition was critical. I know, more loading in the permanent condition, but not enough to override the construction loading.
Chase Martinez
I copied it from the link I added.
Noah Lopez
It's both a truss and a cable stayed. But stay cables weren't put in yet.
You are in for a shock. They don't even google shit before saying something dumb.
Nolan Ross
Q larped this.
Evan Lee
The autists here are retarded when they can't debate your point.
Cameron Sullivan
1. low grade concrete. mafia and other ppl have been known to suppy less than adequate quality of concrete for projects. 2. chinese steel. its got false quality info/standards most of the time
Julian Taylor
strength v. stability..... when it falls.... I think a "failure" of the end irregular column, then it slid off foundation. Check out all the guys looking at that area before collapse.
Wow: igg is an internationally known company with a strong record, but in 2012 a bridge project that it oversaw in Virginia also collapsed during construction. There were no serious injuries after that collapse. Here is everything you need to know about Figg, including a list of other bridges that Figg has built and designed around the country.
Gabriel Butler
Not really. I memeflag for the lulz and get reactions for shitposts. It's pretty odd. The autists think shills use memeflag to hide their Iraeli flags. As if the IDF would not just us a proxy.
Caleb Hill
This virtue signaling tweet will also go to the museum of backfires.
Some of you are cool. Stay off these bridges forever: Here’s a partial list of some of the bridges that Figg has helped build or is helping build: Cochrane Bridge in Alabama; Dauphin Island Bridge Alabama; Hanging Lake Viaduct CO; Fourth Street Bridge CO; C&D Canal Bridge in Delaware; Sunshine Parkway Bridge in Florida; Seven Mile Bridge FL; Mid-Day Bridge FL; Broadway Bridge FL; John T. Collinson Bridge FL; Selmon Expressway in FL; Long Key Bridge FL; 17th Street Bridge FL; Garcon Point Bridge in Florida; Marta Atlanta GA; Clark Bridge in Illinois; Red River Bridge Louisiana; Leonard P. Zakim Bridge in MA; I-93 Ramps and Viaducts in MA; Wmata MD; Penobscot Narrows Bridge ME; Sagadahoc Bridge ME; Wiscasset Bridge ME; New I-35W Bridge Minnesota; Wabasha Freedom Bridge MN; I-110 Biloxi MS; Escatawpa River Bridge MS; Albemarle Sound NC; Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct NC; Four Bears Bridge in ND; Victory Bridge NJ; Airtrain JFK NY; Veterans’ Glass City Skyway in Ohio; Sailboat Bridge OK; Susquehanna River Bridge PA; James Edwards Bridge SC; Veterans’ Memorial Bridge in Texas; Houston Ship Channel TX; San Antonio Y in TX; Colorado River Bridge Utah; Smart Road Bridge Virginia; Varina-Enon Bridge in Virginia; Jordan Bridge in Virginia; and Third Lake Bridge WA.
Jacob Harris
Wow.
Leo Taylor
concrete can't, but that's why they use what is known as reforced concrete
at least get your basics right
Lincoln Gomez
>tfw we demand a warning label on all bridges, towers, or any other structure that could assault our chil'ren due to having a woman involved with the design at any point
Also found this somewhere: MCM was awarded a contract to expand the airport and had built a bridge through the area for airport workers to walk on so they could reach the restrooms during construction. The TSA employee, Jose Perez, was injured when the temporary bridge broke beneath him on October 20, 2016. His attorney said he had multiple broken bones and damage to his spine.
Sebastian Miller
muh muh muh scary meme flag!
Oy vey!!
Josiah Gomez
Jesus.. such art indeed. This pic is worth a standalone
This is a political board where we can hear opinions based on geographic location. By not doing that, you're obviously not here for fun, because it's much more fun to speak as your country than as some fucking meme. If you don't want to remove the meme flag, and you're obviously a white supremacist, post a picture of your skin with a timestamp on it and some sort of proof of white supremacy memorabilia.
I would say 'in the spirit of Sup Forums', but I actually kind of agree with you, memeflaggot. Just keep in mind that just as you have the right to use troll flags, we have the right to taunt you about it, if we want. This is the true spirit of Sup Forums. Your point that debating the facts is the most important thing is also true, and anyone that uses flaggotry to ad hom any other user is, indeed, the faggiest of faggors
Levi Roberts
>this copypasta shit Oh fuck off you annoying twat!! You aren't even funny.
Why were they putting up the walkway but adding the tower with tension cables , that stabilize the bridge,over a 9 month period?
They're very stupid.Most people that work in government are. They probably used illegals/cubans,shitty Chinese steel,crappy concrete etc. My guess is the cable snapped and that downward force causeed it to pancake.
>they were applying tension to end cable anchorages to the footings before they installed the tower, cables, and tensionend the cables. This would have greatly increased load down to the last diagonal, and snapped it like a breadstick. Check out the latest photos I posted, it was the last diag like I thought.
