Tin cans for rebar in Taiwan apartment building!!
Taiwan earthquake: Felled building 'reinforced with tin cans' - BBC News
Tin cans for rebar in Taiwan apartment building!!
Taiwan earthquake: Felled building 'reinforced with tin cans' - BBC News
There was an earthquake in Turkey, back in late 90's and they had the same problem with some buildings there. Although, you would think Taiwan would have higher construction standards than Turkey.
Maybe the Taiwanese used a better grade of oil can ?
Next they'll find some dead Taiwanese gangster in there
Probably fake tin cans made out of card and painted metallic.
Bah. That's a water wall. Great for insulation.
This is not a new phenomena, and was found to be a contributor to some building collapses in the last major earthquake in Taiwan in 1999.
Taiwan Advertisers Shake Up Spots In the Wake of Massive Earthquake - WSJ
It amazes me what lengths some construction company's will go to, to save on the cost of a few tens of cubic metres of concrete.
Some cans are stronger than others.
It was probably too expensive to fill the cans with water to make it a little less compressible
Tin packaging is an inferior product and they should have used plastic.
Its not done often. But certainly works even without the tower.
It seems they use polyestyrene insulation and fillers in the West
https://www.google.co.th/url?sa=i&rc...55425880167557
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