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Colin they don't normally (flat projects) heat the glass. They just score the shape into the glass and then lightly tap it out with a small hammer. The heat is just to avoid cutting from a curved surface, and instead form the pre cut flat glass pieces around a mold to curve them to the desired...

So I had an interesting stained glass design created for a personal project. The end result was a curved piece instead of a flat plane like you'd hang on your window. The stained glass artists cannot cut pieces out of curved glass. Instead they have to cut the colors out of flat glass, heat it...

The line was assumed to go a worse case temperature range from -50 (it's in an arctic environment) to 220. I agree with you about altering the loops, however I would need to get the client to agree as I was told to make a standardized saddle assuming the worst case overturning loads from all of...

Yes, you got it. Sorry, I should have done a better job at explaining. It is a pipe with 3" of insulation on the outside and a cladding around that of galv. steel of 0.03". It would be hitting the stop plate and then rotating about the outer corner of the saddle base plate. We have brought...

P.S. where the vertical plates are with the "G" dimension in the front view, I have also seen them use angles instead (running along the longitudinal direction supporting the curved plate).

Ha, I understand. We didn't draw these though. It's just what they provided me.

Here is a front view, if it helps. This is from the client's typical details, so we are just to use it as a general go-by but have some leeway. I was mostly just curious about the overturning friction from interacting with the bands. They are bolted on and can have variable tension on the pipe.

Ah. No, I believe that is just for strength and rigidity of the saddle and does not extend down to interact with the beam. The pipe is free to move longitudinally, and the saddle is strapped to the pipe but not welded to the beam.

The saddle assembly is allowed to slide on the HSM (support beam) and is just restrained laterally if it hits either of 2 stop plates at some gap distance on either side of the saddle/pipe.

Hello, I was tasked to design a standardized guided banded pipe saddle. Our worst case simulation models from AutoPIPE are coming up with large ratios of horizontal to vertical loads, so we are investigating overturning as an issue. With the numbers we came up with, it seems to prevent the...

Maybe computer science+biomedical engineering dual major? I'd love to hear insider input on the job market and what kind of work you do in an average week.

Thank you for the response. Wow, that's interesting. So are all of the things you can read in science journals about 3D printing new ears and making new muscles pretty much hype? Or is it just that there are rare few jobs in that sort of thing? I was thinking about going to grad school for...

Hello, I am a civil/structural engineer, and I feel like I'd like to get my head out of the code books and tables and more into the fresh innovative side of things. Do you have any advice for me, as far as getting into grad school as a civil undergrad, employment prospects, etc.? I'd love to...

I wish! This structure is to be sort of a "Hang man" style support with a turnbuckle on the 50K end for a pipeline rack system which has a pile on one side settling a dangerous amount. It is supposed to provide tension to prevent further settlement, and reaches over half of the pipes, so I...

Oh and yes, all of the load transfer would be through the welds.

Yes, I find these connections irritating as well haha. I find that here I am generally encouraged to make vastly simplifying assumptions and call everything rigid, but I'd like to understand the more accurate analysis. Although I'd love to hear your method with overlapping conservative...

Woops the 10' dimension is supposed to be to the centerline of the pipe, not the opposite end of the beam.

Thank you. I understand conceptually that the cantilever is going to rotate around the pipe and try to pull off of it, but I feel that towards the inner edge the weld might be in compression from the downward rotation and the outside will be in tension as the beam lifts off (is this correct?)...

Hello, I am a structural EIT and am used to seeing cantilevers that attach to the side of the column etc., so it is just necessary to find the end reactions. Well, now I have a cantilever w beam which sits on top of a pipe, and I need to find whether the weld from the beam to the pile cap is...

Hello, As can be seen in the picture above, the piping section in question is U shaped, and the upper horizonal pipe appears to be supported by 2 L Shaped wide flange frames with 2 EA u bolts going around the pipe. The vertical part itself with the valve and the actuator brances off of the...