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Tae Bo Workout Sent Skyscraper Shaking
MiniMike writes "According to CNN: 'Seventeen people performing a vigorous Tae Bo workout caused tremors that forced the evacuation of a South Korean skyscraper earlier this month, the building's owners say.
Scientists recreated the event in the 12th floor gym, according to a report in the Korea Times.' I don't know which is scarier, that they made such a flimsy skyscraper, or the sight of 17 scientists doing a Tae Bo workout. Hopefully they're better at it than the scientists I've seen in the gym."
Heh, they accidentally hit a resonance frequency?
After (admittedly) doing tonnes of calculations, the actual fix is typically very simple adding weights or some other form of damper to correct parts of the building).
please have video. This has got to be funny!
Korea's got a dramatic history with such things. 500 people died in that one.
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The doom of resonant frequency.
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Apparently we have learned nothing from Galloping Gertie?
No wait, some of us have. Mythbusters proved that properly designed modern bridges aren't anywhere near as susceptible to forced resonance anymore.
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Interesting. If this is true they were probably moving in sync, and accidentally matched the resonant frequency of the building. It was a similar problem with that wobbly bridge that collapsed shortly after completion, but that was resonating from the wind. Whats interesting is that they managed to do this from the 12th floor of the building. It must not have very good resonant properties. Luckily wind rarely buffets or changes at such a quick frequency, so they are safe from that, but I would really worry about even very minor quakes.
Were these 17 people?
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Just the usual preemptive-defensive reaction of another code monkey that finally realized that his computer "science" 101 course didn't really make him a scientist. Nothing to see here, just part of the new anti-intellectual slashdot of this decade.
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Scientists are bad at the gym? Is that a stereotype? Never heard that before. I know some marathon-running, rock-climbing scientists that would probably take issue with that.
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The article concerns a workout which happened to hit the resonant frequency of the structure, which was properly designed. The failure you linked to had to do with criminal negligence by the owners ignoring repeated engineering and construction firms who refused to accept design changes driven by greed (and were fired for it), completely repurposed building usage leading to gross overloading of the structure's strength, and then completely incompetent handling of obvious signs of structural failure (failure to immediately evacuate the building.) For fuck's sakes, they removed columns for escalators, then cut into the remaining columns, then ADDED A STORY WITH POURED CONCRETE FLOORS *and* an air conditioning unit the building wasn't designed for. And then when the building started to fail, they just blocked off areas to hide it from customers because they didn't want to lose sales revenue.
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That's why Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan don't usually workout together.
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Did you read the article? The resonance could only be felt on one very narrow range of floors. The whole building wasn't shaking, which is what tuned-mass and active dampers are designed for. They're for countering earthquakes, wind-induced vibrations, etc.
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Billy Blanks is no longer allowed in South Korea.
OP here. The end of my submission, where I include that IAAS (scientist), was cut off, so I would like to state that I wasn't trying to convey a "where (sic) better than they are" attitude. I could have stated my intent with the last surviving sentence more clearly. While many scientists I see in the gym are in great shape, some of them are in quite poor shape and uncoordinated. The ones at that end of the spectrum are usually in the beginner group exercise classes. It is that group I was trying to reference in the post. The last sentence should have read 'some of the scientists'. Hope this clears it up.
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There are many building codes in S. Korea and local officials want bribes to look the other way. Even if you build by the letter, they will find some technicality or make one up to delay the construction. Any delay costs lot of money so most developers just pay the bribe.
Korea is a lovely country but sadly it is infected with corruption like most of Asia.
P.S. I know this because my in-law is one of those corrupt official in S. Korea. She wasn't even embarrassed about it either.
>>Tesla's earthquake machine was an exercise routine?
He had The Power.
Somebody around here doesn't like Tesla, almost every Tesla related post has been down-modded.
And myth busters claims to have busted that one, too, according to your link.
I guess the mythbusters crew have never spent much time in buildings from the 19th century.
(At least, I would hope it was negligence. But reading what mythbusters has said about vibrating buildings, they've just lost a lot of what cred they had with me.)
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Not the first time such things have happened:
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/zumba-class-has-office-all-shook-up-20110224-1b73p.html
A Zumba class in a building only a block away from where I work caused noticeable movement in that building, so much so that some people were afraid for their safety. Of course, the building was up to code and engineers reported that nothing was wrong, but still, interesting...
The building just oscillates around him.
all about how flimsy you can make your building that 17 small 150 pound males running around could topple that skyscraper down....serious architectural deficiency there!