Carowinds identifies what caused support beam to crack
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2023
- Carowinds announced how it plans to repair the Fury 325 roller coaster that developed a large crack last week.
The theme park announced that after consulting and inspecting the entire ride with Bolliger & Mabillard, the company that manufactured Fury 325, it has determined the crack formed along a weld line in the steel column of the support beam.
"Working in close coordination with B&M, we are planning to remove and replace the existing support column," Carowinds said in a statement. "The new support column, which is being fabricated by B&M, is expected to be delivered to the park next week."
Carowinds did not provide an estimated date on when Fury 325 could reopen. The coaster has been closed to the public ever since the crack was reported to security last week.
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Someone shared a picture they took a week prior to the video of the fully broken column. The picture clearly shows the column cracked halfway through. If Carowinds had been doing ground level visual inspections daily *and looked up* they would have spotted the crack before it went all the way through.
Yeah that person was working from home.
B&M is one of the world's premier roller coaster manufacturers, and have been for decades now. Their reputation in the industry is second-to-none. I have full faith and trust in the company and can't wait to get back on perhaps the best steel roller coaster in the world, Fury 325.
mate it means nothing. its obvious they fukt up here no excuses. why you jumping out the pram to protect them this is awful and could have ended with many dozen deaths
You sound like you work for B&M.
B&M has one of the best safety and reliability records in the industry--I'd expect that nobody here was in any real danger; there's enough redundancy in those supports that the ride could operate safely with one of them completely gone, though it'd accelerate wear in the adjoining supports. But I'm not surprised that it needs to be completely replaced, and I'd also expect them to have to do a lot of testing on the others.
The danger and threat to public safety lies not in the crack itself. The rides support system was over engineered enough that it could withstand the loss of that support for a limited time. But each run with it like that will cause compounding damage. The critical safety question is why did the park not detect such an obvious and complete structural failure? One that was as we saw, visible from the parking lot and main entrance. How long was it in that state undetected? (It could be up to a week) Why were those familiar with the ride not picking up on things like the change in its sound? This is an utter failure of their daily ride inspection routine. I’m not talking the deep inspections and walking the track itself. I’m talking walking around each coaster. Looking at the track and supports, and watching the morning test runs. This crack was visibly growing for at least a week. Nobody at that park was looking up.
Half of what you said is false.
lol
what a shocking comment. the strain is been put on other pillars it would end in a domino affect. get real
@MattMcIrvin What a load of BS statement. Redundancy or not, what this incident means that they're not physically inspecting their rides daily.
After watching the video of the support "moving" its clear there is an intense safety factor on these constructions
That isn't a crack. It's a break, which is why it moves freely whenever a car passes.
Whose gonna be that first group to ride this repaired ride again? Lol. You know, to test it out
2:46 hard to reach?! You can see the coaster everywhere at the front of the park! Not to mention that again, their parent company says the ride is supposed to be visually inspected along the entire length of the ride and all supports. Why they are no longer doing Cedar Fair SOP for maintenance is beyond me.
Apparently you don't understand what "hard to reach" means. Yes you can see from a distance, but can you get close up to it to actually look at it? No you cannot. That is what is meant by "hard to reach". Looking at it from a distance does nto tell you anything. YOu have to look at it close up to be able to see what actually caused it to happen so it doesn't again. Try to educate yourself.
@@chriskay1449 cameras with zoom exist, drones exist, oh better yet, buying a cherry picker and going out there and inspect the trac, which btw is part of the daily inspections that B&M demand be done as per the SOP that comes from the manufacturer.
@@chriskay1449 you still need to walk under and around the ride every morning. Looking for blemishes, stains, anything out of the ordinary. A $30 pair of binoculars given to someone to look at the ride, the track and the supports would have been more than sufficient if used properly to prevent this embarrassment and insure safety.
1:37 if they did their daily inspections; THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT!
They have to do a daily inspection as all of the rides computer systems keep an audit trail, so all systems have to be checked, lifts, brakes, mid course brake run, trim brakes, sensor in trains to make sure lap bars are closed and locked as designed. The state of NC or SC can pull this information by making request and if the ride was found to have cycle with weight in the trains and no morning safety inspections Carowinds could get shut down.
WHen it comes to steel coasters it is not like you can walk the track in a few hours, as you have probably seen there are inspectors using ropes and rappelling equipment inspecting the ride, that type of inspection is only done 1x per year because steel is not thought of to fail so easy... WHat this did was show daily inspections will need to be beefed up hence the use of drones going forward but also this report doesn't focus on the fact the bad support was found to be sinking... it seems the concrete footer has sunk a bit and any changes above a few inches can have catastrophic effects for design and can cause failures not originally expected to happen.
Yous houdl watch some coaster engineering videos on you tube. I worked at a park so I am familiar with what goes into the daily inspection to get the ride open for the day and when it comes to steel coasters you can't walk every bit of track like you can a wooden coaster... if they had catwalks through the whole ride then it would be possible and they might just end up doing that because of this event. Only time will tell.
Pencil Whipped maintenance records.
Wireless Vibration sensors with feedback would help.
That is NOT a weld line!
Hope the welder that made the repair welds more than Derby Crash Cars together !
Actually, it does have the answer: no.
somebody is feeding someone a line of BS1
I don’t know why they keep calling that a crack. That thing is completely broken into two pieces.
1:59 they failed to mention they are required by Cedar Fair to perform daily visual and auditory inspections as well.
Which they clearly were not doing
The crack may have started at a weld line but it ripped most of that steel with a jagged tear thru the steel pipe.
Cracks in the heat affected zone have a tendency to do that. Think of a tear in the edge of a piece of paper or fabric, very easy for that to grow once started.
I'm guessing that other bnm's that use the same support column will probably be checked thoroughly now, along with I'm guessing all other gigas I hope?
There is only one other model similar to this and it is at the Canadian Park and they have been performing the inspection of the supports every morning since the incident at Carowinds, but they have not found anything to keep the ride closed but they did inspect all high stress areas
The difference between a fracture and a break are the same in welding as it is in humans. That break doesn't look like a weld line to me. I think they should x-ray all the welds that experience the forces that the breakpoint faces and recertify it 100%!
Run it 500 times with bags of sand the same as overweight riders.
They have molded test dummies they can fill with water to simulate low to high weight and that is how it will be tested when it is cycled. All 3 trains will get 500 cycles each and each train will have these dummies of varying weight in different section s of the train.
Knowing about roller coaster engineering. This makes me further not trust news media and their sensationalism.
rollercoasters are scary lol
The news guy with the Miami Vice outfit is as cringe-worthy as the inspection practices at Carowinds prior to that crack being discovered by a patron's father with a phone cam.
As a mater of generic common courtesy and as a practical sense, where is Carowinds moral and ethical responsibility in reconciling these yet to be accounted for glaring discrepancies in their repeated public assertions of:
1. Daily inspections of all of their rides (per Carowinds did include “Structural”)
and
2. How this massive fissure on “Fury” escaped all scrutiny by every employee of the park?
For any Company that publicly stated repeatedly (especially after a serious lapse in safety) that their sole emphasis is on the safety of their guests as being top priority.
Carowinds decision, to completely ignore this specific topic, is such a shockingly arrogant position for them to take, which speaks volumes, as to how much they truly value said priorities.
Carowinds Management should truly be proud of themselves, anywhere else in the world this would qualify at a minimum as: reckless endangerment, reckless endangerment of a child, negligence.
Bravo!
Every park in the USA is regulated by a specific department within the state, and the laws governing ride safety and operation require daily safety checks, Steel coasters have different guidance because they do not have cat walks like wooden coasters, but with every issues comes new guidance and processes to make sure this problem is not missed in the future.
why would there be a weald line there ? makes no sense i call bullshit. if it was welded it needed to be code welded you need to sit a test min every 2 years to keep that certificate to do code welding.
so they admit some areas are hard to reach, hence admitting they dont properly check the rides. There should be a lawsuit for jeopardising life, and they should lose all profits gained from the ride based on when the failure is likely to have occured. This way it will motivate them to take safety seriously.
They did not jeopardize life the ride could have still operated safely for weeks with the crack
There is no grounds to sue. They didn't jeopardize life. They followed state regulations. This is the kind of attitude that hurts this country.
@@C0astinG4mer dont talk crap lad. omfg it will end in domino affect to much strain on the next pylons
👎 on this “analysis”
2:09 sigma carowinds vs beta American news platform
obviously it was designed taking into account the weight of the passengers - as well as a minimum age and height requirement maybe introduce a width restriction for each rider, we all know how they like their cheese