I mean, really ridiculous. It's insulting. Case in point:
Well there is a succer born every minute, or so I've heard.
What's worse is that they contradict themselves on their advantages page by saying: "System supports more than 84,000 lbs. per square foot unfilled, and more than
164,000 lbs. per square foot filled."
Because they can? The plastic itself, when supported properly, can probably hold 97k lbs, but like you said, the soil below can't. The whole thing will sink into the ground. Its a meaningless fact meant to convince potential customers. I consider that sort of thing fraud, or in todays legaleze, attempted fraud. A good horsewhipping and then encapturement in stocks on the public square for 5 days will cure that problem and deter others contemplating such behavior. ...and the website should be shut down for 5 years.
That is what I've always refered to as "fun with math". Like in statistics, you can take any set of quanitative data and by cherry picking the scale you can greatly exaggerate the results.
Or as the Duke of Wellington once said, "There are lies, there are damned lies and then there are statistics".
The material works well for temporary overflow parking areas, but heavy use results in dirt. Growies need sunlight and water. EDS
Most likely they are attempting to make the potential buyer aware that the pavers are stronger than the roofing components they are covering. Green buildings are the future in certain cases.
Point in fact is, there's nothing wrong with this type of advertising; engineers know that a roof is only as strong as its weakest link....... they are simply stating htat this isn't it.
Roofing components...? They're designed to be driven on - used in landscaping. Saw no mention of living roof ballast, thought they would obviously be able to handle _foot_ traffic on a roof.
Point of fact - it's a bunch of crap. They're saying that _one_ square foot of their _plastic product_ would support 2/3s of an M1 Abrams battle tank. Puh-lease. The stuff would be dust.
It's a simple, straightforward lie in advertising. They're either misrepresenting the load capacity intentionally or through ignorance. Neither is acceptable.
R
LOL, and what are the chances that 97k would ever be necessary? I mean, everything I have ever owned all total prolly don't weigh that much.
2/3 of an abrams...heh
That's including the spent uranium armor.
R
The roughly 180,000 lbs of a Boeing 747 is dispersed over 26 (?) tires of which about four or five sq ft (each)come into contact with the ramp/runway/taxiway.
Maybe they're promoting their stuff to firms building major airport runways?
LOL, Candy cig's cause cancer
"Ken S. Tucker"> wrote
22 percent of current or former smokers had also regularly consumed candy cigarettes, while only 14 percent of those who have never smoked had eaten or played with candy cigarettes
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Which also means that 78% of current or former smokers DID NOT consume candy cigarettes and 86% of those that never smoked also didn't consume the candy.
Of course, this is a crisis of a magnitude that is unimaginable and a gov't task force must be assigned with a $100bil/yr budget and a giant marble tower for their twice annual meetings.
++++++++++++++++++++++++They ought to do an online poll that will show that 99% of the people that consumed Snickers bars as children consumed even more of them as adults and thus the country has become populated by battalions of grossly obese fat asses, causing the couch and big screen market to soar to the ionosphere. The sock market is down 85%. Fruit of the Loom has doubled, and doubled again, the size of their manufacturing facilities for size 72 and over underpants. Put your money in the slip-on shoe market and become tomorrows Bill Gates.
NYT best seller: "Fat Asses", Giving yourself a reach around.
There's a new trend to develop green roofs (covered with grass). Used on some commercial buildings made to be walked on by the tenets, also used to make a roof greener for a penthouse. That's where I've seen these types of products used, but not to any real extent.
As far as the loading goes, did you see that its designed to use a base of
6-7 inches of stone aggregate, covered with a bed of gravel 2' thick, with the hollows filled with pea gravel covered over with a 6" sand cover. The plastic pavers are used as a stabilizer for the gravel.There should no problem in carrying a load of 675 psi using the method advertised on the website. I don't think you read through the entire specifications completely.
As far as what they advertise for loading, 674 psi is high, but not unheard of. "> Roofing components...? They're designed to be driven on - used in
Milky Way
It's not a new trend. There have been roof gardens aand roof top swimming pools for decades. What I love to do is visit these roof gardens couple decades on.....It's not just the psi, it's also wheher or not your substrate (elastomeric, whatever) is meant to be wet all the time when you water mr. roof garden.When you are doing drainage into aggregate like you suggest, it's not wicking into ground water, it's wicking eventually onto your substrate. Essentially, then , what you have to design is a swimming pool that is designed never to be kept clean on top of a roof...And the best way to conquer such an issue is to give that water somewhere to go and to do it without clogging it with the dirt...
Forget left field, you've jumped the fence and are hanging out in the bleachers. Typical undisturbed prescriptive lsoil bearing capacity loads, according to the IRC, are in the range of a ton or two per SF. In other words, their paving plastic grid, resting on gravel (assume five tons PSF bearing capacity for gravel to show I'm not being unreasonable), increases the bearing capacity by TEN times. That sound right to you? If so, I sure hope you don't do your own calculations.
RGood Morning,
Interesting thread.
While I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, I do like to hear good feed back on the products I sell. I am a dealer for the product and I own the site
You guys obviously know your stuff in the load arena. I would love some feedback on this load data from MPI. Is it crap? if so why? This is where the facts come from we use on the site (actually from the 4 page brochure on the specs page). I will be glad to send samples out to anyone that would be willing to conduct these tests to see how our products hold up.
I would also be willing to take feedback and a real world writeup on soil load capacities and what benefits any kind of pavers provide for that soil base.
I want everyone to know about the product and I want that info to be correct. Architects, Designers and End users a like should have factual information in making decisions and choosing products.
So I hope ya'll don't still want to take out behind the shed. My goal is to provide factual data for our products. They are a good solution and are more durable than people think.
Please keep up the thread. I like a good debate.
Hey Rico, if I get this dood to send me a sample will you lend me your abrams so I can run it up and down the product a few times? I promise not to mess around (too much) wif that nifty body armor you mentioned. When my product testing is complete, in about 7 years, I will post it to the domain
I'm not trying to slip the nifong to ya. :-o
RIco-
I visited the website & emailed the guy (he posted below) about the claims being made.
He sent me a link to some info from the mfr (he jut sells them)
looks like the mfr had some tests done on the plastic unit (filled & un-filled) AND the mfr (or their agent) did some hand waving based on the ASSTHO H-20 loading
And then extrapolated the results to some of insane psf number
the guy who signed the test report is some sort of clueless Phd.......reporting numbers with 6 or 7 "significant" figures, reporting psf's that no soil in the world could possibly support
Using the ASSTHIO loading & then extroplating to a generalized psf is like calc'ing the stress under a woman's high heel & extrapolating to a psf for floor loading!
Example:
120 pounds, assume .375" diameter heel tip, standing equally on both shoes,540 psi translatesto >>>>>> 78,200 psf
makes as much sense as their test report & product claims
What they really have is a product that can take a higher "point load" (actually a local small patch distributed load) than normal (unconfined / un-reinfornced) soil.
With the plastic grid & grass roots, you wind up with a reinforced soil that (IMO) is at best is a few times stronger (locally) than regular soil MAYBE 20 or 30 psi
but it ain't asphalt or concrete!
cheers Bob
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