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Re: Big Dig

Subject: Re: Big Dig
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Peter Lewicke" <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "Dick Margulis" <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:16:01 -0800

"The collapse of the ceiling structure began with the failure of a single steel hanger that held up the panels. The failure of that panel set off a chain reaction that caused other hangers to fail and sent 12 tons of concrete to the roadway below"

Regardless of whether the single hanger failure can be traced to bad procedure or not following good procedure, no single point failure should ever lead to a catatrophic event. Do a search on "factors of safety."

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Lewicke" <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com>


This appears to have been an engineering
design error, rather than a documentation problem.

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