• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    “I just don’t see how the whole bridge falls over that fast”

    Bruh it is a ten million ton cargo ship bumping into it, do u think it’s just gonna bounce off?

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        8 months ago

        it floats way better than i do, so it can’t be that much heavier than i am. and let me tell you, there’s no way i could topple a bridge by running into it

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          8 months ago

          But that could mean the ship is actually a witch! And witches do have a history of bringing down bridges.

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      8 months ago

      That ship was about 100,000t.

      There’s a fairly crude equation in the American bridge engineering standard that relates impact load to the mass of a ship, which is:

      P =√(DWT) ±50%

      Where DWT is the deadweight tonnage, and P is the impact load in meganewtons.

      So in this case P=315MN ±50% which is 315000kN or 31500 tonnes of force…

      For comparison, I’m working on a project where we’re going to build a new concrete bridge on the ground next to where it needs to go (under a railway) then wait until we have a planned week with no trains running and push it into position using jacks. That bridge is a 60m long 20m wide 8m high concrete box with 1m thick walls and top and bottom slabs, and we think we will need about 30MN to install it (one tenth of the impact load from that ship).

      So yeah… that’s quite a hit.

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      8 months ago

      Sure you can build a bridge they can withstand a crazy like that. It’ll cost more than the cities it connects and nobody has a budget for that.

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      8 months ago

      Bro, it’s a trillion ton bridge. You’re comparing a bug flying into a windshield and telling me the windshield should break. R u serious 4 real?

      Huyuck. Sorry for that. But this is the kind of shit you’re going to have to deal with. So you better have an answer for it.

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        8 months ago

        “If I hit your kneecap with a hammer, I’m only taking out one support, but your hole ass is hitting the ground” seems like a good response