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[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I am just a random guy and even I know that reusing 50-year-old materials that were bent and submerged in salt water is probably not a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ditto.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We're all better engineers than Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

InevitableSwing PhD aka Science Guy aka The Mad SCi-Rhymer aka I'm just a guy but I still know more than Elon.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

You are correct. The bending changes the microscopic crystal structure in the steel and would be a weak point. You'd have to completely redo the heat treatment to get it back to normal and at that point you're essentially scrapping the bridge and using new steel, which is exactly what they're gonna do because they're not idiots like Musk

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

It's fresh water (Patapsco River), but yeah.