#Structural collapse

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Structural Collapse

The Gruul holiday of Rauck-Chauv always ends the same way.

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When Binding Wire Fails—And What It Means for Structural Joints and Reinforced Rings

The Unsung Heroes of Construction

Binding wire, construction rings, and dowel bars — these three unsung heroes are often overlooked in the spotlight of construction materials. Yet, when binding wire fails, the consequences ripple through the very heart of a structure. It's not a surface issue. It's a core failure, one that compromises the integrity of reinforced joints and weakens the load transfer across construction rings and dowel bars.

The Critical Role of Binding Wire in Reinforced Concrete

In reinforced concrete structures, the purpose of binding wire goes beyond just "tying things together." It secures the steel framework, holding bars in position during casting and vibration. A small gauge wire — yet it bears the massive responsibility of ensuring that construction rings and dowel bars remain precisely aligned under pressure. When it fails, nothing stays where it should. Steel cages shift, spacing gets compromised, and the placement of dowel bars turns inaccurate. The result? Joints that were designed to carry stress now buckle under it.

Visualizing the Impact: Columns, Dowel Bars, and Construction Rings

Imagine a reinforced column rising from a footing. Dowel bars connect the two with precision, while construction rings provide lateral support to resist hoop stresses. The entire setup is stable only if the steel configuration holds its designed shape. Binding wire ensures that. If it snaps, stretches, or corrodes prematurely, that shape begins to deform. Concrete then flows around a flawed frame — one that may look solid on the outside but carries internal weaknesses no eye can see.

Early Warning Signs and Long-Term Consequences

And those weaknesses don’t wait for decades to show. Even before finishing stages, poor-quality binding wire can cause ties to loosen during shuttering or compaction. This leads to uneven distribution of load, unexpected stress zones, and cracking at critical joints. Over time, the lack of reinforcement integrity due to binding wire failure makes even the strongest dowel bars useless, and the construction rings struggle to distribute tension efficiently.

Real-World Lessons: Failures from Neglecting Binding Wire Quality

Contractors often learn this the hard way — not through theory, but through real-world collapse. Slabs that sag. Columns that shear. Beams that settle. And at the root of many such failures lies the underestimation of something as small and seemingly insignificant as binding wire. It doesn’t just hold — it stabilizes. It aligns. It preserves the engineering intent of dowel bars and the reinforcement rhythm of construction rings.

The Cost of Cutting Corners

The temptation to cut corners with cheaper wire is common. But the price paid is often in compromised safety. Good binding wire resists corrosion, retains tension, and doesn’t snap under handling stress. It's tested not just for tensile strength but for its ability to work under field conditions — from wet formwork to prolonged setting times. When construction rings are meant to resist expansion forces and dowel bars must remain locked in shear zones, the reliability of the ties holding them is non-negotiable.

Separating Cost from Value in Construction Materials

This is where discerning construction professionals separate cost from value. The journey from blueprint to standing structure depends on details. Binding wire may be minor in cost, but it’s major in consequence. The strength of reinforced joints is not defined by size or concrete grade alone — it's defined by what holds it all together when stress builds and movement begins.

The Invisible Strength That Holds Structures Together

When structures breathe under load, twist with wind, and shudder with seismic waves, what keeps the steel skeleton from unraveling isn't magic—it's the reliability of the ties that bind. Binding wire may never be visible in the final product, but its failure speaks louder than its presence ever could.

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Gojo Satoru in the Prison Realm ✶ S2E10: Pandemonium

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(part 4) fun for the whole family continues!!

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Hello! I just wanted to say that your new peoject Astronought is such an awesome and well-made game! Atom is just so so adorable omg, they are such a cutie patootie

Anyway here is my question! So, I’m guessing the reason the ship got damaged in its rear was because of Atom, right? But, like… can I ask how they managed to do that? Did they turn into a massive ball and shoot themselves down in an incomprehensible speed like a meteor or something?

I'm so sorry but that is literally what happened,,,

It literally came in like a wrecking ball. //lyr ref

[p4nishers]

one of the most important things terry pratchett has taught me is that it's okay to be angry. no one has ever said that to me before. he taught me that anger was an engine. that you can use that anger. that it goes hand in hand with love. he taught me to never underestimate my anger, because it's one of my strongest points. he taught me genuine anger was one of the world’s great creative forces. he taught me i shouldn't be fighting my anger, but what caused it. he himself said rage underlines everything he wrote. i never heard anger talked about so openly like that before and it's freeing, i suppose, to realize you are truly, truly not alone in your rage at the world. you never were.

[cluescorner]

A Batman who kills people is a bad Batman. Except for Terry because he is my special boy. Terry can drown a man it's ok. He can literally shatter a woman it's fine.

[ambernotember]

Good job team, I think we did it

continuing my magic au from BucktommyAUpril (even though technically this is a prequel).

on ao3

“Oh this is fucking brilliant,” Sal snarled, slamming his hand against the concrete slab beside him. “Deluca, could you not?” Hen asked, gritting her teeth. “I’m trying to keep us from getting pancaked, I don’t need your yapping.” “How are you doing that?” Tommy asked curiously. “Metal,” Hen ground out. “In the supports.” “Okay, maybe we stop asking her questions right now,” Chimney said. “And do what we can to find a way out of here.” “If we can’t get any air, it’s not going to matter,” Sal muttered.

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[qoldenskies]

If cc Donnie had died because of his ninpo breaking, does that mean he technically would have died of a broken heart?

................in a figurative way, i suppose!

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[alliebirb]

Atom Eve next season needs less time as Mark’s therapist and more time going balls to wall w/ her OP powers!!!! I’m tired of this green lantern object generation, have her turn the air in a viltrumite’s lungs into mayonnaise!!!!!!!

[fokrons-art-hell]

Nine Promises ain't looking so good.....

[bestworstcase]

Hi there! I was wondering what your thoughts are on the rwby ship whiteknight? I'm not a hard-core shipper but I think they have a really interesting dynamic (they both have a kind of damsel in distress VS knight in shining armour duality in them (with jaune starting the series desperate to be the hero/Knight but constantly finding himself in position of damsel, over the series growing into that role of Knight while also learning that relying on others is okay, and weiss being both damsel and liberating Knight rolled into one). Do you think these 2 fit into an ozlem fractal? Or do their parallels make them too similar to be compatible?

in general terms, the fractal ozlem lens is about – well @rontra distilled it here more pithily than i could lmao but the thesis is that the fractures and reflections of ozlem in other characters (& their romantic arcs) is a narrative commentary on and justification for ozlem itself; so the question to ask when looking at the narrative this way is always, what does this say about ozlem?

(<- and you [general] also kind of have to understand, as a prerequisite, what’s actually going on narratively with ozlem themselves, by which i mean anyone arguing for the romantic eventuation of this or that ship on the basis of it being in some way a narrative refutation of ozlem doesn’t know what they’re fucking talking about. lol)

anyway, i’ve written before about weiss and (SIGHS HEAVILY) where jaune’s character might be headed vis-a-vis romantic arcs, with the TL;DR being i don’t think weiss will have one and jaune has a lot of weird setup in this regard that has led me to what is either the most brilliant moment of foresight i’ve ever had or completely losing the plot but i think he’s headed for some kind of enemies-to-lovers situation with gillian asturias.

in any case the– i don’t like to refer to it as ‘ship teasing’ because that presupposes that the writers put it there as fanservice and not in service of characterization, but the light narrative flirtation with weiss/jaune in v9 struck me at the time and continues to strike as akin to blake/sun in that it’s predicated on a genuine but superficial and passing attraction that is textually shown to be at odds with a deeper incompatibility and lack of sustainable romantic connection – weiss alienates and hurts jaune in precisely the same way sun does blake with his misapprehension of her motives for running away in v4. also like blake/sun, this flirtation-incompatibility is resolved via a movement toward closer friendship absent any romantic tension.

which is interesting in part because narratively the point of blake/sun is to precipitate character development blake needs to be able to return to yang. we see something similar with penny/ruby -> ruby/oscar wherein ruby’s grief for penny and guilt about not being able to protect her is entwined with the narrative setup for ruby/oscar, although there the grief/guilt complex is what creates the obstacle inhibiting ruby from wanting to/allowing herself to admit how much she’s grown close to oscar. the point being, rwby has a pattern of doing this kind of thing.

(what makes jaune weird is that this is also happening with cinder, and i don’t think the pseudo-romantic development with weiss can really be extricated from the pseudo-romantic development with cinder because there is this push-pull happening. the blatant ozlem-parallel chest stomp is immediately followed by cinder impaling weiss which incites jaune’s semblance; cinder murders penny and forces jaune’s hand by moving to kill weiss only for jaune to save weiss by screaming in anguish when he ends penny’s life; cinder shatters the symbol of jaune’s selfhood and weiss incites the mending of his self-image by casting him into the tree.)

the fractal ozlem level checks out for gillian/jaune (<- he’s a salem who is cynical and in want of true faith, she’s an ozma who chose her heart over her cause, but she’s also a salem whose father refused to put her in a tower and his experience in the ever after corrupted him into a shadow of ozpin, the julius caesar / nennius allusion implied by crocea mors and jaune’s forefathers having been mistrali soldiers vs gill allegedly being descended from the vacuan monarchy that was conquered and eradicated by centuries colonization which most recently was at mistrali hands rather directly echoes the lifetimes of enmity salem and ozma have shared; if the narrative goes this route with them they are a microcosm of the compromises and understanding that needs to be found between ozlem)

but that in itself isn’t necessarily grounds for the ship to eventuate and indeed it’s sort of the window dressing; more salient is that it makes… a lot of sense for gill to be where the tragedy of arkos and the pseudo-romantic developments with weiss/jaune and jaune/cinder are all pointing (especially if im correct in thinking gill is or will be the summer maiden!):

arkos ended in tragedy for the same reasons ozlem did the second time around – pyrrha chose to die fulfilling a (hollow, arbitrary) destiny she was coerced into accepting rather than choosing herself and her love. if jaune is slated to have a second romantic arc i’d expect it to not only not repeat this tragedy but to specifically reject the self-sacrifice that made arkos tragic; thus the romantic interest would need to be someone who would choose to do what pyrrha did not, and gillian is—demonstrably—exactly that person. she sacrificed her destiny to save herself and her brother. (she is also, er, the invincible girl…2!)

similarly the intertwined back and forth between cinder and weiss in relation to jaune, if that is precipitating a genuine romantic interest i would expect her (or him) to be someone who resembles both cinder and weiss in a way that is salient to jaune and their interactions to him. and like.

cinder:

✅ phenomenally powerful enemy ✅ aura-siphoning capabilities contrasting jaune’s semblance ✅ (possibly!) a maiden

weiss:

✅ heir to a political legacy in her kingdom of origin whose character is strongly defined by that legacy and her patriotism ✅ injured in a way that galvanizes jaune’s character development (<- in gill’s case, jax’s medical condition)

all the necessary pieces are there. and certainly it seems very likely that jaune—who has the reverse of gillian’s semblance, whose forefathers were involved in the conquest and occupation of gillian’s country!, and who traveled the ever after with two children who very likely lived during the mistrali occupation of vacuo unless that book is centuries older than i think it is—will be a central player in gillian’s character arc regardless of whether he is or isn’t a romantic interest.

comparatively—i don’t see much of any meaningful narrative foundation for weiss/jaune to eventuate romantically. his crush on her during the beacon arc is long gone (and chiefly served to facilitate his growing up for pyrrha, allowing arkos to culminate in romantic tragedy) and the v9 flirtation is, as i said, i think contraindicated in the same manner blake/sun was in v4. weiss’ friendship is of crucial importance to jaune’s character, but there is nothing obvious binding them together in the long term–

compare blake/yang: yang’s desire for adventure and novelty in service of others is a perfect complement to blake’s razor-sharp clarity of purpose and searing commitment to justice. or ren/nora: they’re bonded by shared history and a shared need to find purpose now that they have, together, exorcised the demon that destroyed their home (as it were). or ruby/oscar: both of them have expressed, in different ways but with equal longing, a desire to just explore and find freedom from the burdens of destiny thrust upon them.

the evident endgame pairings all have something that connects them – a shared goal, or two different goals that each complement the other so well that they might as well be two halves of a whole.

weiss wanted to reclaim her family legacy from her father’s corruption of it, and make things right; now that her kingdom has fallen, her motivations seem likely to shift from reclamation to rebuilding. meanwhile jaune forced himself into an ill-fitting mold in desperation to follow in the footsteps of his forefathers – again, mistrali soldiers who were likely participants in the occupation of vacuo and certainly would have been fighting on the fascist-imperial side of the great war!!

notionally jaune’s preoccupation with his family legacy dovetails with weiss’ but the way they interact with these legacies are diametrically opposed, and jaune has never actually reckoned with what his forefathers were fighting for. that the narrative exiled him in the ever after in the specific way it did – meeting two vacuan children who might well have come of age in a time when his grandfather was an occupying soldier in their country, and being so paranoid and obsessed with forcing their story to happen correctly that one of them got scared and poisoned him – along with the very explicit telegraphing that vacuo’s history of being colonized will be coming home to roost… well. jaune’s individual goals have been driving him toward a reckoning in vacuo, and he has no personal connection to atlas/mantle at all.

basically i struggle to see him leaving vacuo once all is resolved and likewise struggle to see weiss doing anything besides returning to solitas to rebuild, and that is a pretty critical incompatibility – these locations are literally not even in the same hemisphere. and i don’t think that would be the case if rwby were building up toward weiss/jaune with any seriousness tbh

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2025 vs 2024!! I’m so happy with how my comics have evolved! (also wip for the next project woooeooooeeo)

[ironworked]

The main premiere/finale emergencies in 9-1-1 so far:

s1: Rollercoaster / Motorist accident

s2: Earthquake / mail bombs & 118 engine bomb

s3: Tsunami / Serial rapist case & train derailment

s4: Dam break & mudslides / Sniper targets LAFD

s5: Ransomware blackout & Harry kidnapped / Jonah

s6: Blimp crash & Athena's case / Overpass collapse

s7: Capsized cruise / Cartel & Bathena house fire

s8: Beenado & Plane accident / ???

And there's also of course the regular or midseason emergencies (pile-ups, hostage situations, building collapses...)

Asking because I seem to remember TM talking about wanting it to last 2 episodes, and I'm wondering what they've got left to do that also isn't premiere material.

[epiphainie]

wanna write rabbot fic but even the cursory knowledge i need for some medical terms is putting me off...