I was hoping he would go into more detail about how this disaster changed engineering rather than the disaster itself.
[QUOTE=Mmrnmhrm;51954391]I was hoping he would go into more detail about how this disaster changed engineering rather than the disaster itself.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse#Aftermath[/url]
A bunch of engineers lost their professional license and got kicked out of the American Society of Civil Engineers effectively ending their careers.
In my classes they like to use case studies like these to highlight the consequences of simple errors in engineering. Titanic was one (it split in two while sinking because no one tested the steel at low temperatures), a Mars Climate orbiter was another (lost because the staff couldn't convert from English to SI units), the nuclear plant meltdowns are always a favorite in my department.
Who do you blame? Engineers who made poor design choices? Management/Government for hiring bad engineers? Schools for making bad engineers? People for not realizing safety hazards? Every accident legal case will pin the blame on someone but in reality everyone is partially responsible for preventing accidents. The professional engineering societies like ASME/ASCE/ANS etc all try to help fellow engineers in doing their job right because mistakes cost money, lives, and public trust.
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51957379][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse#Aftermath[/url]
A bunch of engineers lost their professional license and got kicked out of the American Society of Civil Engineers effectively ending their careers.
In my classes they like to use case studies like these to highlight the consequences of simple errors in engineering. Titanic was one (it split in two while sinking because no one tested the steel at low temperatures), a Mars Climate orbiter was another (lost because the staff couldn't convert from English to SI units), the nuclear plant meltdowns are always a favorite in my department.
Who do you blame? Engineers who made poor design choices? Management/Government for hiring bad engineers? Schools for making bad engineers? People for not realizing safety hazards? Every accident legal case will pin the blame on someone but in reality everyone is partially responsible for preventing accidents. [B]The professional engineering societies like ASME/ASCE/ANS etc all try to help fellow engineers in doing their job right because mistakes cost money, lives, and public trust.[/B][/QUOTE]
Considering Engineers are the 3rd most trusted profession behind nurses & doctors, its crucial that engineers are open to scrutiny, peer review and open to outside help.
My father is an architectural engineer and I remember him telling me about this.
It's super important that engineers are held up to scrutiny because one badly built building can fuck everything up.
That's where I went to my first anime convention. I remember my grandpa telling me about it before I went there. I also remember some people talking about it at the convention. A few people even tried to spread fear over it while I was there :/
Really nice looking place though, wish I took pictures of the actual building.
Roman point is very important structural failure I've been taught in different structural modules. It was a progressive failure from one building component. Our designs have to have structural redundancy so that if that one member fails, the whole structure won't collapse
This accident is one of my favorites. That probably sounds fucked up, but I have a big fascination for accidents and fuckups like building collapses or plane crashes. This one has it all - incompetent engineers, bad ownership, and clueless (as in they simply had no idea what was about to happen on the walkways) innocent people.
I highly recommend checking out the Seconds From Disaster episode on the Hyatt Regency, too.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T0x2UwdbV0[/media]
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