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  1. GregLocock

    MS MechE with Math Bachelors

    Fascinating question. So would 1 year of prereqs and 2 years of MSMEng, be better than X years of BMEng? OK, your prereqs will skip all the lab stuff, which is where my brain absorbed the theory. But I see that labs are of the Lego level now, when we used to use steam engines. So maybe missing...
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    Fairly fed up

    Fairly fed up
  3. GregLocock

    Friction error in MSC Adams

    Try setting the friction very low, but not zero. I assume you are using View, have you completed the Latch tutorial? Oh, and can you post the exact error message?
  4. GregLocock

    Where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners

    https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/oct/16/where-climate-change-poses-the-most-and-least-risk/ is it really climate change or is it more people living in flood plains and tornado alley? And specifically where the couple lives, yes the coastline is sinking for well understood reasons that have...
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    Solar powered ferry replaces diesel powered ferry and doesn't work

    Here's the same sort of stuff up for a conventionally powered ferry. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-25/new-spirits-ferries-may-be-secondhand-by-the-time-they-arrive/104513124 Bear in mind these are the guys that fell for the high tech wave piercing catamaran story, and bought a ferry that...
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    Work in Matlab with a reduced model in Abaqus

    I think you picked the wrong forum, we have both matlab and abaqus forums. Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376 http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
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    I need your help.

    So my interpretation is that a causal line is a plot of a selected property at a particular point (?) along the beam, as a function of the location of the force applied to the beam. The ? is because I would have thought knowing the max bending moment anywhere along the beam is more useful...
  8. GregLocock

    I need your help.

    I'm guessing the 2.1.4 question is talking about the influence line as a truck drives across the bridge. But that is a guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_line Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376 http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
  9. GregLocock

    I need your help.

    Ah the one with the green dashes - sort of partly complete free body diagrams? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_body_diagram In your question where is the force applied? Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376 http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
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    I need your help.

    causal lines is not a term I've come across. Can you give an example? Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376 http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
  11. GregLocock

    I need your help.

    ...and what is your progress so far? Why is this not covered in your lectures and textbooks? Since no loads are shown I suspect you are after influence diagrams, but I'm not sure. I'd start by sketching out a shear force and bending moment diagram to get a few clues Cheers Greg Locock New...
  12. GregLocock

    Guidance for Project

    We don't do your homework. Also remarkably inane thread title. Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376 http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
  13. GregLocock

    Music in the Office

    Try playing a bit of white noise or whatever. Noise cancellation is not perfect and you are hearing what is left, which can be rather odd in terms of both amplitude and phase. Conjecture: Also, the bone conduction path still works, so your ear is trying to figure out why the bone says there is...
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    Hydrogen electrolysis aka green hydrogen

    Cost of hydrogen storage. Ouchy. Not helped because if you are storing energy for a once per year event, you get to amortize the cost of storage on that one event for the year. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435124004215#preview-section-snippets Summary Green...
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    Electro static motors

    'Lightning' Ben Franklin demonstrated one of these way back when. This startup thinks they might have some uses, benefit in particular is that they don't need much copper or rare earths. https://www.c-motive.com/technology/ mentioned in the paywalled WSJ...
  16. GregLocock

    MATLAB/Octave

    Octave works fine with FEA. I don't use toolboxes in general for that. Typically I use it to modify input text files in response to output files from previous runs, ie optimisation type problems. If the high price of Matlab puts you off, what about the price of the FEA? If you are just...
  17. GregLocock

    Beam bending refresher

    Stress_Eng - yes, that is the question and when I get my script working, I'll be able to answer it. The problem with looking at SAE style leaf springs is that they are either multileaf or non constant thickness, rather than simple cantilevered uniform beams like this one, and in reality they...
  18. GregLocock

    Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XIII

    engineering solution? Please see title of forum. Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376 http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
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    Beam bending refresher

    But that's small beam deflection theory. As the ends move in the moment drops and so the non linear solution is stiffer than the linear one (ultimately of course you end up with two vertical bits in tension, no bending at all). Cheers Greg Locock New here? Try reading these, they might help...
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    MIT Solar powered desalination

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-024-00314-6 Only a the pilot plant stage so far. $10/tonne of water, which is slightly less than what I pay for water brought in by tanker. 4 kWh/tonne, but that is highly dependent on the quality of the incoming water. A small but sensible contribution...
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