Collapse in Ft. Worth TX - TCU stadium seats

[JAE]

Here's a couple of links. Looks like a steel bracket on a concrete column(s) broke off from the photos

ENR link to TCU stadium collapse

Star-Telegram link to TCU stadium collapse

 

[JLNJ]

Post-installed cantilever backets with the fasteners permanently in direct tension?

 

[boo1]

"The concrete base of a seating section under construction at TCU's football stadium collapsed":

http://www.star-telegram.com/447/story/462825.html

 

[JAE]

Well, I think that may be the reporters take on what someone told them. I wonder what the ultimate cause was, technically.

 

[HgTX]

Damn, I wish I'd kept up with Eng-Tips while I was in Fort Worth this week. I was just visiting a fabricator supplying steel to that project.

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