Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Re: 'Epoxy creep' factor in Big Dig death -- oblivious

On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Rhkratzse@aol.com wrote:

> And I don't think this is just good hindsight; I think both of
> these examples are SO obvious that anyone with more than ten
> minutes of engineering experience would realize that they're
> completely inadequate.
The fact that all plastics degrade slowly under time shouldn't come
as a big surprise any more, either.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/

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