fritter63 said:Here in Kalifornia, they would simply require a plaque mounted at the top and bottom of the stairs:
"Warning: Stairs not rated for 300 pound bounding teenagers"
j123j said:One thing an engineer has to avoid is overkill. For example, here in Finland we dont design our houses to withstand hurricanes or earthquakes because a situation where a house here has to withstand that kind of forces is so rare. The same logic can be applied to these stairs, I dont suppose they're gonna try to park their humvee in the stairs.
j123j said:I'm studying to be a structual engineer...
I wanted to test the domino's strenght. So I made a bench like this out of solid birch:
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(This one was not made by yourstruly)