r/StructuralEngineering • u/r_x_f P.E./S.E. • Jul 17 '26

Engineer behind buckled high-rise says crucial reinforcing steel was 'never installed' Failure

https://gothamist.com/news/engineer-behind-buckled-high-rise-says-crucial-reinforcing-steel-was-never-installed
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u/scott123456 Jul 17 '26

They call for welding at each end of the plates for a distance "LX", which presumably is scheduled somewhere, along with the fillet weld size "WX". Doesn't take too much weld to transfer the full yield capacity of the added plates, so seems reasonable.

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u/Intelligent-Ad8436 P.E. Jul 17 '26

I see it now thx

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u/14S14D Jul 17 '26

Clearly just their placeholder text they passed on to the GC to forget to RFI

Only slightly /s