Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
Building implosion
In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings. Despite its terminology, building implosion also includes the controlled demolition of other structures, like bridges, smokestacks, towers, and tunnels. This is typically done to save time and money of what would otherwise be an extensive demolition process with construction equipment, as well as to reduce construction workers exposure to infrastructure that is in severe disrepair.
Building implosion, which reduces to seconds a process which could take months or years to achieve by other methods, typically occurs in urban areas[citation needed] and often involves large landmark structures.
The actual use of the term "implosion" to refer to the destruction of a building is a misnomer. This had been stated of the destruction of 1515 Tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. "What happens is, you use explosive materials in critical structural connections to allow gravity to bring it down.
The term "implosion" was coined by my grandmother back in, I guess, the '60s. It's a more descriptive way to explain what we do than "explosion". There are a series of small explosions, but the building itself isn't erupting outward. It's actually being pulled in on top of itself. What we're really doing is removing specific support columns within the structure and then cajoling the building in one direction or another, or straight down.
- Stacy Loizeaux, NOVA, December 1996
Building implosion techniques do not rely on the difference between internal and external pressure to collapse a structure. Instead, the goal is to induce a progressive collapse by weakening or removing critical supports; therefore, the building can no longer withstand gravity loads and will fail under its own weight
Numerous small explosives, strategically placed within the structure, are used to catalyze the collapse. Nitroglycerin, dynamite, or other explosives are used to shatter reinforced concrete supports. Linear shaped charges are used to sever steel supports. These explosives are progressively detonated on supports throughout the structure. Then, explosives on the lower floors initiate the controlled collapse.
A simple structure like a chimney can be prepared for demolition in less than a day. Larger or more complex structures can take up to six months of preparation to remove internal walls and wrap columns with fabric and fencing before firing the explosives.
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After tinkering with my work thinkpad for over an hour, it turns out the nvidia drivers was fine, the external monitors are controlled by intel graphics drivers which were corrupt
Ah that'd be the video output port on the laptop (probably HDMI, DP, maybe VGA?) is driven by the iGP. It's probably due to the switchable graphics, they'd share some circuitry. My wife has an Asus G14 with a Ryzen iGP and it's the same thing, you have to tell it to use the Nvidia chip over the video out.
Causes all kinds of messy problems at times.
Think you're right. In fact I suspect the nvidia chip I have on board is designed entirely around workstation usecases, probably very good for CAD and/or vector/tensor operations. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a chip that's actually pretty bad at most traditional rendering tasks.
Just a bit confusing for the output ports to break, there to be nvidia drivers, and those to not be the issue lol
IIRC Nvidia's Quadro line that routinely appear in Thinkpads are built from the same guts as Geforce cards, but with more cuda cores maybe. The main differences tend to be in the drivers, Quadro drivers won't have game optimisations but usually a Quadro will have a roughly-equivalent Geforce chip.
But yeah switchable graphics, I appreciate what it does but myself and most people find its implementation hateful, usually. It doesn't always work well and the interactions between iGP and dedicated graphics can be bad
Why does something with an nvidia gpu have components dependent on the on board graphics
i feel like it was perfectly reasonable for me to not think of troubleshooting the thing that probably should not be used.