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Sinkhole Collapses Part of Corvette Museum in Ky.

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Lefty:
Not a strauctural engineer, but it's most likely not the absence of rep which caused such a dramatics failure, it the absence of solid material under the floor. Time to check the garage.

Lefty

69VETTE:

--- Quote from: MY081 on February 13, 2014, 05:38:18 PM ---Am i missing something or is there a big absence of reo in that floor !!!!!!

--- End quote ---

Hey Ray, its hard to tell from these photos, but the slab in question would most likely only have one layer of either F82 mesh or F92 mesh... cause its a slab on ground and most likely not structural, like what you would normally see in a suspended slab say to a first floor or above.  What amazes me is that the buildings engineer should have undertaken a geo tech report before designing the slab.  This kind of failure is not random (tho i have my suspicions.. see link below) and it would have been common knowledge in the local area if subsidence in the land around there was a normal thing.

In Australia we have the Building code of Australia and AS2870 which stipulates that on a controlled fill (ie material of like compactness and not building rubble of rubbish) you only have to provide one layer of F82 inside for a floating slab.. 

Like i said, I have my suspicions and say from my research that it was generally related, or the result of something the NSA of the FDA is up to.. don't believe me.. well do your research... nevertheless its a friken shame that those cars were destroyed !

Here is a link of what you can find if your really interested in whats happening in the states right now... and i'm not talking about the economy or marshal law !!!

86er:
Unbelievable, yeah Ray no reo.
There's more reo in a standard basic driveway

coradict72:
seems someone will some explaining to do no piers and steel bars I'd be bit nervous with the rest of the structure even a visit lol.
By the way according to local news.there lies a
93 zr1 on loan
2009 zr1 on loan
62                         museum owned
84                               ""       "
92 1millionth car         "         "
93 40th anniversary   "         "
01 Z06                          "      "
09 1.5 millionth car       "      "

I trust there would be hardly any miles on most of these corvettes..terrible situation

gtc:
Seems from various US accounts that the region is well known for its sink holes, so it makes you wonder what sort of local building code applies.

I hope they're adequately insured, especially for those "on loan" vehicles.

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