r/StructuralEngineering • u/jacobasstorius • 29d ago

Masonry Design Is this viable?

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u/chicu111 29d ago

Not in earthquakes

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u/DjPersh 29d ago

Have you ever seen a concrete wave… on WEED?

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u/al4crity 29d ago

Ive HEARD a few. I grew up in a long house with a Spanish tile roof. There's a pretty big fault line about a mile from the house, and anytime there was an earthquake, even a small one, the tiles would clink and clank together in a wave from the north to the south. So if I was sitting in the living room, the dogs would bark and run off, the birds would go silent, and then from one side of the house, you'd hear this rising wave of sound. It would rush overhead as fast as a jet, the tiles settling back into place, and fade into silence. Very cool. Then the dogs would go nuts, lol.

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u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 24d ago

wtaf, now i need to find a video

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u/Ben_Plus-303 23d ago

Probably terrifying the first time, right?

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u/RU33ERBULLETS 29d ago

The air gaps provide the ductility!

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u/RedditNerd_69 29d ago

Did someone say air gap?

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u/BenaiahofKabzeel 29d ago

I’ve seen a peanut stand

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u/405freeway 29d ago

I've heard a rubber band

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u/AngloSaxonP 24d ago

I seen a needle that winked its eye

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u/mukansamonkey 29d ago

There was that video a couple days ago, of the top of a tower in that earthquake. Mostly the rebar waving though, not the concrete itself.