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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: alanrs who wrote (229260)11/18/2009 12:13:12 AM
From: arun geraRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>Get the prints, add up all the weight above those floors. Once floor beams start cutting loose you've got a shock load situation that would be highly unlikely to have been engineered into the design.>

This is the crucial tipping point. How much is the difference in impact of and resistance to shock load versus static load? As such the steel columns on lower floors unaffected by high temperatures would have been capable of bearing the static load, because they had always borne the load, and usually are designed to bear many times the load above them.

-Arun
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