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[Qshake]

Five years ago, the structural industry was beat on for not designing buildings to resist aircraft collision, now I suspose that we'll be beat on for not designing our structures to resist the odd vehicle impact!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060913/ap_on_re_us/car_stuck_in_building_2

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Qshake

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[JAE]

Qshake,

Oh no - I'm sure you are wrong...I've seen that load case in ASCE 7 somewhere...I'll look it up as soon as I complete my analysis of a warehouse resisting that new meteorite impact loading.