Exponent Info Session: From Murrah building to Galaxy note 7
What Murrah building has in common with a galaxy note 7? One can say they both failed to perform as expected . The same person can also point out they both need engineers to figure out what went wrong. On February 28th, SEI graduate chapter of Virginia tech invited Dr. Osteraas, group vice president of Exponent Inc., and Andrew Hardyniec (VT Alumni working at Exponent) to talk about structural failure and how Exponent helps to “unravel the mystery”. The presentations were quite amusing and fun to listen to. Two interesting takeaways: Murray progressive collapse was due to the extra upward … Continue reading Exponent Info Session: From Murrah building to Galaxy note 7