Hmm.. how would you fix this?
Tim
I get a 404 not found at that URL.
You aren't perhaps talking about the Scottish "Parliament" are you?!
URL, or saying where the image really is.
It certainly sounds like that. I was amazed when I saw the photos - I had assumed that the beams would be held by more than just their tapered shape, and glue, but there was no sign of a bolt.
Oh b*gger! Should have been
Tim
All the joints are in compression, so no need to cope with any shear force at all.
Probably don;t even need teh glue.
A reasonable flexible polyurethane glue should be entirely adequate. BUT what a complete load of old bollocks that structure is. Obviously designed by architects and structural engineers with too much time and public money to spend. Its engineering for the sake of it. Not for any PURPOSE.
Don't you mean "All the joints *should* be in compression". If it had been in compression it's hard to see how it could have come undone.
I think if the metal tie bars that run across beneath the joints have stretched or are insufficiently tensioned, then the joint could potentially be in tension.
But demonstrably not in this case.
Tim
I'm not so sure about any glue! I reckon the "designers" relied on the wooden beams always being in compression, and thus holding themselves together. Seems they were wrong!
The architect is dead but was known as "el collapso" after the roof of a building he designed in his native Spain collapsed. Apperently the builders were at fault that time but I see a pattern forming...
MBQ
Now, THAT's interesting! Do you have any (preferably online) references?
Is he dead because the previous building collapsed on *him*?
"The modern design was the concept of Enric Miralles, the late Catalan architect who attracted the headline "El Collapso" when the roof of a sports centre he designed fell down in Spain.
The builder was to blame for that collapse, but the headline was gleefully recalled yesterday in the corridors of Holyrood.
The engineering firm Ove Arup was responsible for bringing his ideas to fruition in Edinburgh, and its engineers were examining the structure."
MBQ
No, I don't think so.
MBQ
I believe it was a brain tumour of some sort. He died before the building was anywhere near complete.
According to today's 'Telegraph (so it must be true ...) the oddly shaped beams were 'reminiscent' of the Fife Oak beams in the original Scottish Parliament building .... that'd be the one they used before the Scottish King took over the English (&Wales) throne and the Scottish parliament voted to disband itself and be over-repreented in the Westminster place. {BTW: the exchange rate between the Scottish Pound and the English Pound was adjusted too - rather like the 'Ost'Mark and the 'Deutchmark'}. One can only presume that it was all the hot air from the MSPs that displaced the beam.I mean; surely the have Building Control Officers in Edingburgh? [One knows they didn't count the bawbees ... but !]
My guess is that for some reason that strut was in tension when it shoudl have been in compression.
Perhaps it was a little short. Perhaps the tie bars below are not in enough tension keep it in comrpession.
: If I had to be responsible for fixing it I'd slacken the tie bars a little. Replace the strut with a thickness or two of card to 'shim it out'. Then tighten the tie rods to bring it into compression.
Well, it WAS right over the Conservative benches.........
They spent a fortune of our money on that heap of junk:(
LOL
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