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Strong cinder block home obliterated by Hurricane Michael | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76778624  United States10/12/2018 03:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | RIP, hopefully she wasn't mentally incapacitated with dementia or something and no one helped her leave. |
Rosenkrantz  User ID: 76996773 United States10/12/2018 06:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As others have said cinder blocks aren’t strong. They are just hollow concrete blocks. I am no engineer but I believe they have high compression strength but low tensile strength. So they can carry heavy loads, but they aren’t strong against impacts to their side. Quoting: Corporal Punishment Brick houses are the same. Most brick houses are just a brick veneer. If it was a few rows of solid brick then it would start to have some strength. I am an engineer, and they're plenty strong to withstand any conceivable pure wind force, in compression or tension. It's impact that hurts them; they are brittle and can shatter, and the mortar between them can also be shattered. Making the concrete that's molded into concrete blocks, with an additive of flyash seems to make them less brittle. A concrete block basement with flyash in the mix can be very durable. I've got one, 60 years old and I don't think it's ever had an issue. |
| Rosenkrantz User ID: 76996773 United States10/12/2018 06:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Even if the structure held, what was she planning to do when the water from the storm surge filled up her home. Swim around until the water receded? Quoting: ~+ <3 +~ RIP, hopefully she wasn't mentally incapacitated with dementia or something and no one helped her leave. They can indeed drain out as the water recedes, and maybe with help from some mold killer like diatomaceous earth they can be fine again. It's much harder to dry out a wooden structure, where the mold can get in and start using the wood fibers for nourishment. There's nothing for mold to eat in a concrete block. |
| jake User ID: 76890717 United States10/12/2018 06:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: WaitTressSandwhich new oceanfront hurricane code requires the center of all bricks to be filled with concrete, most old structures are not Evil controls the ignorant... Climate change is a hoax so is the vax you have been fear-porned into compliance! Definition Satan from the bible: Satan (Rev 12:7) exercising his subtle (indirect) impact on heathen governments (powers) – i.e. accomplishing his hellish agenda from "behind the scenes." |
| Pilgrim001 User ID: 77021014 United States10/12/2018 07:37 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As others have said cinder blocks aren’t strong. They are just hollow concrete blocks. I am no engineer but I believe they have high compression strength but low tensile strength. So they can carry heavy loads, but they aren’t strong against impacts to their side. Quoting: Corporal Punishment Brick houses are the same. Most brick houses are just a brick veneer. If it was a few rows of solid brick then it would start to have some strength. I am an engineer, and they're plenty strong to withstand any conceivable pure wind force, in compression or tension. It's impact that hurts them; they are brittle and can shatter, and the mortar between them can also be shattered. Making the concrete that's molded into concrete blocks, with an additive of flyash seems to make them less brittle. A concrete block basement with flyash in the mix can be very durable. I've got one, 60 years old and I don't think it's ever had an issue. Surface bonding cement with fiberglas mesh is ONE way to make them stronger against side forces. SBC could be retrofitted to older block houses. I don't have the time or the crayons to explain this to you. Slake Blake |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76778624 United States10/12/2018 08:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Even if the structure held, what was she planning to do when the water from the storm surge filled up her home. Swim around until the water receded? Quoting: ~+ <3 +~ RIP, hopefully she wasn't mentally incapacitated with dementia or something and no one helped her leave. They can indeed drain out as the water recedes, and maybe with help from some mold killer like diatomaceous earth they can be fine again. It's much harder to dry out a wooden structure, where the mold can get in and start using the wood fibers for nourishment. There's nothing for mold to eat in a concrete block. Too bad she'd be dead by then. At least her relatives would have her body I suppose. |
| Corporal Punishment User ID: 76483742 United States10/13/2018 11:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As others have said cinder blocks aren’t strong. They are just hollow concrete blocks. I am no engineer but I believe they have high compression strength but low tensile strength. So they can carry heavy loads, but they aren’t strong against impacts to their side. Quoting: Corporal Punishment Brick houses are the same. Most brick houses are just a brick veneer. If it was a few rows of solid brick then it would start to have some strength. I am an engineer, and they're plenty strong to withstand any conceivable pure wind force, in compression or tension. It's impact that hurts them; they are brittle and can shatter, and the mortar between them can also be shattered. Making the concrete that's molded into concrete blocks, with an additive of flyash seems to make them less brittle. A concrete block basement with flyash in the mix can be very durable. I've got one, 60 years old and I don't think it's ever had an issue. Makes sense. You can certainly break a concrete block fairly easily with a masonry hammer. |
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