According to Government sources, two of the steel samples collected from the remains of a building collapsed under construction in Bangkok, Thailand, according to government sources. The 33 -story building collapsed on March 28, killing 18 people after a 7.7 earthquake that caused significant damage to Myanmar and Thailand.
The collapse of the building has resulted in a furious controversy, as none of Bangkok’s high structures, which is 1,000 km from the Epicenter of the earthquake in Myanmar, has been severely affected. More than 2,000 people have died in Myanmar as a result of the earthquake so far. The Red Cross also stated that some of Myanmar’s prey could have been damaged, but there are no confirmed reports on breaches.
The Institut de Ferro and Steel Thai Iron and non -profit is examining the rest of the seven samples of 32 mm, 25 mm, 20 mm, 16 mm and 12 mm deformed steel bars, wire ropes and steel bars, which were collected by an official team led by the Akanat Sinyster Akanat Industry Minister.
Thitipas ChotedeChachainan, chief of the technical research team, said that 32 mm deformed steel bars did not meet the strength receipt value standard, while 20 mm bars did not comply with the massive standard per meter.
The government of Thailand has ordered an investigation into the design and structural integrity of the building that was building the engineering group number 10 in China, a Chinese government entity. The project, commissioned by the State Audit Office, is jointly owned by this company and Italian-Taizi PLC.
The controversy of the Bangkok building took a dramatic turn when police detained four Chinese citizens attempted to steal 32 documents from the waste after the earthquake, according to Nopasin poolswat, an assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Office. The arrested people said they were trying to recover documents to make an insurance claim.
Amorn Pimarnmas, President of the Structural Engineers Association of Thailand, said that Bangkok’s soft floor could also have participated in its collapse, as it can amplify the earth’s movements three or four times more.
“However, there are other assumptions such as [concrete and reinforcement] quality and certain irregularity in [the] Structural system. They remain in detail, “he said.
Authorities will also examine the construction method in the project of $ 58 million and made efforts to make it resistant to the earthquakes.
Christian Málaga-Chuquitaype, Principal in Earthquake Engineering at the Imperial College London, who saw a video of the collapse and the wreck, said that a process of building flat slabs seems to be being used, which is no longer recommended in terrace-prone areas. “A flat slabs system is a way to build buildings where soils are made to rest directly on columns, without using beams,” he told the BBC.
“Imagine -you only a table supported by the legs, without additional horizontal supports below … while this design has architectural costs and advantages, it works badly during earthquakes, often failing in a brittle and sudden, almost explosive way,” he added.
The collapse raised questions about the quality of government supervision on construction projects.
Mana Nimitmongkol, President of the Anti -Corruption Organization (Thailand), said that the State Audit Office, which commissioned the project, was preparing to cancel the project last January due to the intermittent work stops of the contractor in the early stages, followed by significant delays.
