CurveLight
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yeah, no shitOMG, sheesh the first floor didnt not have the gaps of the rings, it went all the way through as ONE FLOOR to the inside of ring C
they even had PHOTOS to prove it
Their pictures don't prove their claim.
"A great deal of thought has been given to protecting the Pentagon from fire. Its steel-reinforced concrete construction makes it a fire resistant building. In addition, the main interior walls above the basement level are of masonry."
And....
"To conserve steel and other metals, concrete ramps instead of elevators were used to connect the floors, and the outside walls were made of reinforced concrete."
Http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Pentagon.html
but the FIRST FLOOR WAS CONTINUOUS from ring E to ring C
get that through your fucking thick skull
"The one element of the Pentagon not constructed of reinforced concrete is the outermost perimeter wall."
"Thus, we call the perimeter walls of each ring the lightwell walls. The lightwell walls, constructed of poured in place, reinforced concrete, are both bearing and shear walls."
STRUCTUREmag: The Pentagon Lightwell Walls
So the outer most wall (when originally built) was not reinforced concrete but the others were. You seem to have fallen for the misinformation on that pro-OCT website. The first floor being continuous does not mean there were no reinforced concrete walls on the first floor. Do you know what load bearing and shear walls are? The pic you keep referencing shows the open space between rings for three stories and like that website, you're trying to claim there were no reinforced concrete walls on the first floor because you can't see open space between the rings on the first floor. The Pentagon is a slab on grade design so together with the info in my link about load bearing and shear walls, it's obvious the first floor of each ring had the reinforced concrete walls. Why? What would happen if you tried to place concrete walls three stories high but used a weaker material for the first floor? The whole fuxxing building would collapse.
What material do you think is on the first floor walls holding up shear and load bearing reinforced concrete walls for the three stories above it?
The renovation made the outer most wall a reinforced wall back with steel and kevlar and the other walls were reinforced concrete. One of my main beefs is the exit hole of the C-ring. No, not the diameter. It's a dead center line from the point of entry and there is nothing there showing exactly what made the hole. With all the debris flying around how the hell did (whatever) maintain that nice straight line from the E to C ring?
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