Recent content by Peter Dow

Not us much as First Minister Sturgeon hoped. It's hard even for Americans to oppose the Queen because even the American TV networks - Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN etc - all follow the BBC in supporting the Queen. It is usually impossible to argue it the way I do, except on the one occasion I was...

The Queen's courts, where the judges are appointed by the Queen, swear an oath to serve the Queen and can do whatever the hell they like in court, pervert the course of justice, find innocent Scots "guilty" because there's no helpful head of state who is ever going to order that judge removed...

Actually it is we Scots who have "no actual power". The only way a nation has power is when it commands a nation state to defend its freedom. Scots don't have a nation state. The state which governs Scotland is the United Kingdom and its head of state is Queen Elizabeth, whom we Scots don't...

Any American who really wants to help Scots get our FREEDOM, sure. Americans who are happy to leave Scots enslaved by the United Kingdom, no of course not, why would they bother? Queen Elizabeth is the enemy of the Scots. PLEASE HELP US SCOTS, to get the Queen out of Scotland, so that we Scots...

The Scotsman reported White House ‘doesn’t think Scotland is part of the UK’ The referendum in Scotland in 2014 on the question of Scottish independence was RIGGED, :14:by the BBC unionist bias and censorship of the broadcasting coverage of the campaign - keeping most pro-independence...

Now considering member 2, which survived intact, member 2's "SECTION C-C" - - has 12 x size 8 (diameter 1", area 0.785 sq-in) reinforcing bars and member 2's P.T. bar force setting is 560 kip (same as member 11). My truss calculation results were - in transit tension of 458 kip in situ...

The Florida Department of Transport has released the engineering design and construction plans for the FIU pedestrian bridge, which can be downloaded from this link. Florida Department of TRANSPORTATION - Denney Pate signed and sealed FIU bridge construction plans - 2016 & 2017...

I could try but a picture paints a thousand words so I'll rather add a few sentences in red ink to this picture which I have extracted from the FIGG - MCM design-build team's own document pdf proposing to FIU that they get the contract to build the bridge. The bridge designers innovated...

Thanks to the use of an online truss calculator, I have now been able to make a more accurate calculation of the likely forces which the bridge was subjected to when it failed. Video evidence shows that the bottom northern end joint of the bridge failed first and so suspicion has fallen...

More on concrete. My estimate in my previous post was based on average concrete but I have since discovered that the the FIU FIGG-MCM proposal specifies a higher (the highest) grade of concrete - grade VI - 8.5 ksi. So with this fairer assumption and considering the possibility that the...

Hey no problem. I doubt it. There is so much wrong with the way they used the concrete that even if it was the world's finest concrete ever, with the bad design of the bridge they used, it was never going to stand the test of time. For example, the concrete truss member which failed - number...

The pedestrian bridge was being built next to a 4-way intersection or crossroads, with a pedestrian crossing, where the traffic has to stop for the lights anyway. It seems that the cost of a pedestrian bridge (or pedestrian underpass) could not be justified. The existing pedestrian crossing...

<- North ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South -> Experts cite explosive joint failure as cause of Florida bridge collapse “I think they probably were carrying out jacking works,” said Bourne. “You only have a jack connected...

Florida Involuntary Manslaughter Laws Overview of Florida Involuntary Manslaughter Laws When a homicide, the killing of a human being, does not meet the legal definition of murder, Florida state laws allow a prosecutor to consider a manslaughter charge. The state establishes two types of...

You can wait if you want. I wanted to do a little investigating of my own.