jhardy1
Structural
- Jan 26, 2004
- 930
I just watched the movie "Locke" with Tom Hardy - it's a brilliant "thriller" following a construction manager trying to organise a massive concrete pour over his phone while driving on a motorway. (Now - that's not a movie pitch that you hear every day!) Highly recommended - and not just for Civil Engineers. (Watch it with your "other half", so that they can learn just how exciting your day to day job can be!)
Anyway - at several points in the narrative, the importance of using C6 concrete rather than the inferior C5 comes up. ("What does it say on the whiteboard, Donal? C6, not C5!") These are not terms that mean anything to me as an Australian Civil / Structural Engineer. Are these common specifications for concrete in the UK? It's pretty obvious from the dialogue that C6 > C5, but it would have been just as clear to a non-engineer that 40 MPa > 32 MPa, for example.
It's hard for me to imagine that this was just an example of sloppy writing that you might see in a Bruce Willis action movie, given the accuracy of the other technicalities that come up (slumping the mix, checking the shuttering, organising the traffic management etc - all nail-biting stuff in this context!)
I've tried Googling it, but all I can find are references to the movie "Locke".
Anyway - at several points in the narrative, the importance of using C6 concrete rather than the inferior C5 comes up. ("What does it say on the whiteboard, Donal? C6, not C5!") These are not terms that mean anything to me as an Australian Civil / Structural Engineer. Are these common specifications for concrete in the UK? It's pretty obvious from the dialogue that C6 > C5, but it would have been just as clear to a non-engineer that 40 MPa > 32 MPa, for example.
It's hard for me to imagine that this was just an example of sloppy writing that you might see in a Bruce Willis action movie, given the accuracy of the other technicalities that come up (slumping the mix, checking the shuttering, organising the traffic management etc - all nail-biting stuff in this context!)
I've tried Googling it, but all I can find are references to the movie "Locke".