Human and steel

The security guard uncle was so tired that he dozed off, that is the example of stretching to the limit till the mind and the body cannot take it anymore. A man in his late 50s, balding hair, wears specs. I wonder, has he gotten seasoned to not having proper sleep every night. I walked pass and watch as the sounds of the cricket struggle to sing him into deeper sleep.


Steel design tells us how a beam can buckle when it is not sufficiently restrained. Well, there is one beam, in an enormous structure, which is encountering buckling, with the entire cross sectional area undergoing full fledged yielding. Supposed if there are not enough redundant columns and beams to begin with, crumbling of the whole structure seems imminent.

Then, the domino effect would be observed and many would applaud the failure which could lead to such magnificent pleasure to the eyes.