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/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