BBC News link - 10,000 sq ft bunker
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:10 am
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grenfell wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:21 pm I remember seeing it too and I always wondered what the difference is between burying a bus and burying a shipping container , neither seem designed to bear much weight on their roofs. That aside I couldn't really see how he had sealed one bus to another with any degree of efffectiveness.
Could always wind down a window.....featherstick wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:16 am I mean condensation alone would be a huge problem to manage very quickly unless there's some good aircon?
Some sort of submariners' joke, I imagine?Deeps wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:40 amCould always wind down a window.....featherstick wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:16 am I mean condensation alone would be a huge problem to manage very quickly unless there's some good aircon?
No I'm not an engineer either although my working life has given me a bit of an insight into structural work and I really wouldn't want to put money on it. As you say it's the corners that take the load on a container whereas a bus will have a skin supported on ribs , but then the sides at least of a container are corrrugated and the steel is generally thicker than vehicle skin . And how the windows figure in this is another thing. Needs someone with more expertise and a slide rule than me to work it all out.featherstick wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:16 amgrenfell wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:21 pm I remember seeing it too and I always wondered what the difference is between burying a bus and burying a shipping container , neither seem designed to bear much weight on their roofs. That aside I couldn't really see how he had sealed one bus to another with any degree of efffectiveness.
Not an engineer but it seems to me the principal difference is that the sides and top of a container are non-loadbearing, with just the corner pillars designed to take weight. Whereas a school bus is designed as a hard shell to protect the squashy contents inside.
But yeah, loads of questions about strucural integrity, corrosion, systems under load etc. I mean condensation alone would be a huge problem to manage very quickly unless there's some good aircon?