I wondered also, but I did see a couple of rods yesterday.
Irv
--- On Wed, 5/21/08, Glen Underwood <gunderwood@clarkpac.com> wrote:
> From: Glen Underwood <gunderwood@clarkpac.com>
> Subject: China EQ - Anybody see any rebar?
> To: seaint@seaint.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 11:03 AM
> Every time I see TV footage of the quake damage, I pause or
> slow-mo the Tivo
> to look at the wreckage. I've seen a lot of masonry
> and concrete - and even
> hollow core slabs. But have yet to see even a stick of
> rebar hanging out
> of anything.
>
> Even for poorly detailed, designed, or
> corruptly/incorrectly constructed
> buildings, you would at least expect to see rebar hanging
> out of crushed
> columns or gravity beams, wouldn't you?
>
> I'm interested to learn what the predominant framing
> system was for the
> multistory collapses. I'm guessing a lot of
> unreinforced masonry and/or
> unreinforced concrete bearing walls plus hollow core or
> conventional
> concrete slabs - maybe there simply were no columns or
> gravity beams...
>
> Glen Underwood
>
>
>
>
>
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