Quote Originally Posted by JMS View Post
I wouldn't assume anything about the members here if I were you!
We have a rather diverse crowd here and I am willing to bet that there are engineers and architects posting in this very thread. I won't assume it though!
I'm a real one Masters in Engineering, Electronics major. And I think Jockeys majored in math.

Structural analysis (strength theory) was one of my minor classes. Though I do not know the equations anymore, I still know enough of the basic principles to assert that if you knock out the load bearing bottom corner of a rectangular building, and heat the remainder of the steel structure, it is likely to collapse.