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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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First time in here. I'm an entry level structural EIT, and know little about mechanical as of yet, so bear with me :).
I have been presented with a ball valve (3 piece PetrolValves reduced bore metal to metal seal trunnion mounted) installed in the middle of a pipe in the vertical...
