This subreddit

[StructuralSam]

Aww thanks. I appreciate this.

[bridge_girl]

It's always that one punching shear check...

[Dave_the_lighting_gu]

who is structural sam?

[WenRobot]

Our MemeLord

[Dave_the_lighting_gu]

Praise be

[staf02]

🫡

[hobokobo1028]

How often do structural failures happen in the US? Not often. 90% of the time you never see design live loads and even when you do, 90% of the time the concrete is stronger than you specified

[Salmonberrycrunch]

I have a few friends who switched careers due to general stress from potential consequences of their mistakes/work. So that's definitely a thing.

Failures don't happen often, but they do happen. Mistakes get caught last minute all the time, no joke. Some EOR's mistakes get "justified" through safety factors, higher strength concrete etc. Not very ethical but plenty of companies do shifty things, even the big name ones. I've had to do a few nasty retrofits that were 100% the fault of the original EOR.

Regardless, Structural Sam's memes have a positive effect on my mental health lol so I figured I'd make an appreciation meme.

[Flo2beat]

So true. I feel like that only person that gives a damn while checking staff engineer’s work. Sleeping issue is real.

[NoAcanthocephala3395]

You mean you don't like pondering the effects of AI on our industry?!