The answer to the eternal question "Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?

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Michael Jordan made over $300,000 a game. With $40 million in endorsements, he made $178,100 a day, working or not. If he slept 7 hours a night, he made $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums danced in his head. If he went to see a movie, it would cost him $7.00, but he'd make $18,550 while he was there. If he wanted to save up for a new Mercedes S-Class ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours. Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), at the beginning of the year, he will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st. If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year. Amazing isn't it? However, if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today. Game over. Nerd wins.

Modern Day Engineering Disasters and Lessons

Stacy L. Warmack, P.E.

Introduction
Stacy Warmack, P.E.
B.C.E. University of Minnesota 1996 P.E. Utah, California 9+ years structural engineering experience Experience in design large commercial to small residential

Types of Disasters
Human disasters
Disasters created by human ignorance or willful destruction

Natural disasters
Disasters created by forces of nature

Human Disasters
Human errors/mistakes
Learn from history Be aware of the natural cycle of overdesignsuccess-underdesign-failure-overdesign

Terrorism
Research possible threats Implement building code changes where necessary

Human Errors
Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway collapse, 1981 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, 1940

Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway Collapse

Hotel was constructed in 1978 Two 117 ft long skywalks, suspended over the atrium, collapsed during a dance contest with over 2000 people in the atrium A change during construction was blamed for the collapse 114 people died, more than 200 injured

Hyatt Regency Hotel Skywalk Collapse

Skywalk Support Details

Hyatt Regency Hotel Skywalk Collapse

Photos after collapse

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Bridge succeeded successful construction of other suspension bridges:
Brooklyn Bridge, 1891 Golden Gate Bridge, 1937

Bridge was swaying so much that it was closed and a camera crew came out to document the sway and captured the collapse.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Terrorism
World Trade Center attack Oklahoma City bombing

World Trade Center, 9/11/01

~2,800 deaths at WTC, 2,200 injured Estimated 20,000 people in WTC at time of attack Buildings collapsed due to fire 80% or more are estimated to have made it out alive

Oklahoma City Bombing, 4/19/95

Ryder truck full of explosives was parked outside of building and detonated 168 people killed, 850 injured, 1000+ survived Has led to restricted space outside of possible targets buildings

Natural Disasters
Loss of life can be reduced with research, expertise and diligence Snow Wind/Hurricanes Earthquakes/Tsunami

Snow
Ice rink roof collapse, Germany

Wind/Hurricanes
Hurricanes Katrina/Rita

Hurricanes Katrina/Rita

Indian Ocean Tsunami 12/26/04

Earthquakes
1906 San Francisco earthquake, 8.3 Kashmir earthquake, Pakistan, 7.6, 10/8/2005

Kashmir Earthquake
60% of buildings made of unreinforced concrete block masonry (CMU) 60% of CMU buildings were destroyed CMU building collapse accounted for majority of deaths

Kashmir Earthquake

Utah Earthquakes
Were due for an earthquake
Small earthquakes happen every day Geological record shows a major (6+) earthquake approximately every 2500 years Its been ~3000 years since the last one

Infrequent seismic activity provides false sense of comfort

Utah Earthquake Preparedness SEER - structural engineers emergency response

Organizing to mobilize engineers when needed in a large-scale disaster National program created by engineers responding to world trade center attack

USSC/DES - UT Seismic Safety Committee

Creating statewide plans for an emergency Updating buildings such as U of U library, State Capitol Building

What You Can Do

In your home
Anchor cabinets, bookshelves, top-heavy items Anchor water heater (strap to wall) and fit it with a flexible gas supply

Be aware
In an earthquake, move away from things that could fall on you. If you live in a CMU house, get out or stand in door jamb.

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