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gorcorps

aka Brandon
Jul 18, 2004
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So fuel can melt steel then? This happened last year near where I live. A truck ran into a bridge and the heat melted the steel beams so much they had to demolish the bridge and build a new one.

You've pushed my metallurgy button, so here we go

You don't have to get anywhere close to the melting temperature of steel to soften it enough to deform under the stress a bridge is under. Once you reach a hot enough temp, annealing starts to occur and the grains that make up the material begin to grow... the strength of the steel is in direct opposition to the grain size of the microstructure.
 

Ruptga

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You've pushed my metallurgy button, so here we go

You don't have to get anywhere close to the melting temperature of steel to soften it enough to deform under the stress a bridge is under. Once you reach a hot enough temp, annealing starts to occur and the grains that make up the material begin to grow... the strength of the steel is in direct opposition to the grain size of the microstructure.
Yeah, like when cheese gets warm enough to be squishy but it still isn't a liquid.

Steel is like cheese, right?
 
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BxgJ

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Jul 27, 2015
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Yeah, like when cheese gets warm enough to be squishy but it still isn't a liquid.

Steel is like cheese, right?
Well... I guess if you heat it up enough so it's squishy you could see if it tastes like cheese. But it's probably not a good idea
 

Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
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Wow, has anyone read this?

Authorities still do not know the cause of the fire. The area where the fire originated, he said, was storage for high-density plastic conduit used for cabling and fiber optics. He said the material isn't combustible.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said that city officials have spoken with the FBI and "there is no evidence that this is related to terrorism."
 

MtnMan

Diamond Member
Jul 27, 2004
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Three homeless people have been arrested, suspected of starting the fire.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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Isn't it a flat part that is gone? As in no rising ramp on the approach.

P.S. Off topic but my mother-in-law got criticized out of the blue in Atlanta just for having a nose ring. I was like WTF. Never been in an issue in Toronto or Montreal. Indian style piercing. She's not Indian but spent part of her life in India.
I know lots of people in the metropolitan area that have nose rings.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Maybe once you get the plastics to a certain temp they do become flammable? So maybe some garbage was there and got caught on fire somehow. Cigarette?

Under a bridge seems like an odd place to store cabling though. Don't the telcos have their own warehouses? lol
 

sactoking

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Sep 24, 2007
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Put out an APB for a pretty-boy Hylian with a paraglider if you're looking for someone with a vested interest in starting fires to create thermal updrafts.
 

mxnerd

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Jul 6, 2007
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how fast are the tunnel boring machines that major cities use to create new subway stations?
in ~ 15 years? No idea if he can build the machine he wants thats 10x faster as he claimed.

Elon Musk has some great ideas. But some are just impractical.


 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
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in ~ 15 years? No idea if he can build the machine he wants thats 10x faster as he claimed.

Elon Musk has some great ideas. But some are just impractical.



So what successful Rocket or Electric car companies do you run? Just saying many said the same thing that about Elon starting SpaceX and investing in Tesla.
 

mxnerd

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So what successful Rocket or Electric car companies do you run? Just saying many said the same thing that about Elon starting SpaceX and investing in Tesla.

Well, without some government support / funding / tax deductions, you can say that Elon Musk has none.

Maybe that's why he joined Trump's advisory council.
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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North and south Atlanteans will evolve independently, develop unique characteristics, and perhaps even become separate species.


The caffeine really sped things up.
 
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