How Long Until Materials In this Project Become Degraded

  • Thread starter Thread starter Point Conception
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Materials Project
Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
4 replies · 2K views
Point Conception
Gold Member
Messages
1,166
Reaction score
1,923
This unfinished high rise condo/hotel in gulf of Thailand has been in incomplete state for about 3 years.
How long can the materials last in terms of the project being completed ?
post-11765-0-42903300-1429767422.jpg
 
Engineering news on Phys.org
There is exposed steel there which will oxidize. It takes a long time to rust through rebar, but it will happen.
 
Kevin McHugh said:
There is exposed steel there which will oxidize. It takes a long time to rust through rebar, but it will happen.

Yep, I've snapped quite a few pieces by hand when I was kid working construction in SFl.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: 1oldman2 and Simon Bridge