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10-08-2021, 12:48 PM #18000 RPM
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Ships Flex, but would you be in a skyscraper that did this?
The incredible forces that confront ships in rough seas.
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10-08-2021, 12:50 PM #28000 RPM
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I am not certain the ship was designed to go to this degree of flex.
I do not know the outcome of this vessel.
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10-08-2021, 06:55 PM #3
Pretty scary looking, but all boats / ships flex to some degree. Naval Architects are pretty good at designing a hull stiff enough to handle rough seas, but not break apart. As for the second pic, that just proves that Mother Nature still has the upper hand.
Getting back to the first pic, maybe now some folks will understand how and why containers sometimes fall off ships in rough weather.1992 Progression 22
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10-08-2021, 08:15 PM #4Screaming And Flying!
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under class rules a ship only has to make it to 5 years old, ( first inspection), then its the owners problem.
Modern FEA software has allowed the designers to remove lots of steel.
Classes income is from doing new builds, so why would they allow ships to be designed/built to last?
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As for the question of being in a skyscraper that moved that much if I remember right the Hancock tower in Chicago is 100 stories tall and moves about six inches at the top. That ship is flexing a hell of a lot more than that. So how much do you trust the welders and the steel is the question.
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10-09-2021, 08:47 AM #65000 RPM
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I worked in an office building that swayed, the blinds on the windows would tap against the window frames back and forth all day long.
id actually get slightly sea sick on super windy days. It was wild.
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10-09-2021, 10:18 AM #7
Been in a Los Angeles earthquake in high rise hotel building. The wall was hitting the stationary bed headboard. Pretty unnerving. They are designed to sway and not crack (ductile connections is the technical term).
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10-09-2021, 10:54 AM #81992 Progression 22
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10-09-2021, 08:16 PM #9
poor crew members must have been frieking out , looks like 2 lifeboats already deployed
most overnite successes usually take at least 10 years
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10-09-2021, 09:41 PM #10
The MOL Comfort had an undersized non-robust girder layout combined with the ballast water caused the ship to break in half/sink.
Many of the tallest skyscrapers have a huge damper [over 700 tons] weight suspended by cables towards the top to counteract the motions of seismic/wind.
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10-09-2021, 10:05 PM #11
I ordered won-ton soup and an egg roll ... no wonder it never showed up ..
MOL / COO to captain .. I no care .. you go full send .. now !
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