Part 1
Seymour Hersh has written a detailed account of how the US did it.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The energy crisis looks like it's going to develop into a full-blown catastrophe, yet there is very little media attention. For those not aware, natural gas & electricity prices are at record levels and we're only one week into the "heating season".
UK gas prices reached £4/Therm, equivalent to...
The fire was put out fairly quickly by 100+ firefighters. Aparently the building uses a similar type of cladding to the Grenfell tower and it was due to be removed shortly.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fire-breaks-out-at-london-tower-block-with-grenfell-style-pane
I've been going through some problems in PTB-5-2013, which is the example problem manual for BPVC VIII-3.
The collapse load in the FEM gives the same maximum allowable working pressure as formula KD221:2 in VIII-3 (to within 1%).
For the local failure example in section 4.4 I'm not getting...
With the 2020 R1 release of ANSYS it is now possible to define cross sections and assign them to line bodies within the Mechanical application (previously you had to use one of the ANSYS CAD tools, breaking associativity with the source CAD program).
This has some potentially huge productivity...
