I'm a structural engineer who rebuilds failures in FEM.

I'm a structural engineer with about 15 years of experience. CivilDetective is where I take building and bridge collapses and new construction technologies, rebuild them in my own FEM models and show you the mechanism.

No headlines and no guessing about blame: just what the structure was asked to do, where the weak member was and how the failure could have unfolded.

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