{"id":550564,"date":"2023-01-28T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550564"},"modified":"2023-01-28T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T07:08:25","slug":"poor-lateral-support-led-to-metro-pier-crash-in-bengaluru-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/poor-lateral-support-led-to-metro-pier-crash-in-bengaluru-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor lateral support led to metro pier crash in Bengaluru: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of professors from the civil engineering department of IIT Hyderabad, commissioned by the Bengaluru City Police to identify the causes for an under-construction metro pier crashing and killing a woman and her toddler son in HBR Layout on January 10, has found that the lateral support provided to keep the structure intact was inadequate. <\/p>\n<p>A source privy to the developments in the investigation told DH, \u201cThe reinforcement cage should have been restrained at multiple locations along its height using guy wires (cables that hold a structure in place). But the restraint system anchoring the guy wires to concrete blocks was inadequate. The reinforcement cage was an unstable structure with inadequate lateral restraints and thus collapsed.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of professors from the civil engineering department of IIT Hyderabad, commissioned by the Bengaluru City Police to identify the causes for an under-construction metro pier crashing and killing a woman and her toddler son in HBR Layout on January 10, has found that the lateral support provided to keep the structure intact was inadequate. A source privy to the developments in the investigation told DH, \u201cThe reinforcement cage should have been restrained at multiple locations along its height using guy wires (cables that hold a structure in place). But the restraint system anchoring the guy wires to concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}