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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Monday, November 07, 2011 at 19:17:20 :
In Reply to: Re: Mechanical Engineers Question posted by Paul(in NY) [12.64.146.219] on Monday, November 07, 2011 at 18:34:13 :
"Nobody got wet".
Of course 20 years from now when the concrete starts crumbling and the rebar pokes out because the mafia-owned contractor used uncoated bar and 5-bag mud and falsified the inspection reports so he'd have enough money to pay the bribes to the governor and the state highway commission that got him the contract, it might be a different story. In Seattle they're demolishing a brand new high-end downtown condo tower, something like 20 or 30 stories I think, because they didn't waterproof the ends of the reinforcing adequately and there's no way to retrofit it. The lawyers will make out real well sorting that one out.
By the way, your question was one for civil engineers, not mechanical engineers. As the mechanical engineers explained to me once, mechanical engineers design weapons; civil engineers design targets.
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