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“You ever get that urge, Frank? It begins with looking down from 50 stories up, thinking about the meaninglessness of life, listening to dark voices deep inside you, and you think, ‘Should I? … Should I? … Should I push someone off?’”
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That someone is me
Did they use a different crane to get that crane up there? Such a tiny crane to have up there. Surely the crane they would have had to use to put it there could just do whatever they intend to do with this tiny crane?
It could but it has more important things to do.
And no counterweights, so yeah, hell no to using the tiny tracked crane in the sky today for me, boss.
…okay, so admittedly knee bracing is a thing, but i still have no idea what those trapezoidal braces are supposed to be doing…
Prevent the building from racking under wind load. it also helps transfer load downward.
look up metal building cross bracing. Same concept.
…with open trapezoidal braces?..you’re going to translate those racking forces into eccentric loading right at the middle of your the columns, where they’re most vulnerable, and even worse, those moments will be inducing the same rotation throughout the entire structure…
…my hypothesis is that this frame was engineered by a cow who has everyone fooled that he knows what he’s doing…
I mean this exact layout… is a cartoon. This style is normally just stiffeners before you pour the floors and add the walls.
