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I am a geotechnical engineer. I just asked my structural engineer friend from back in college about a basic structural-load-calculations question and he chewed me out like I was illiterate. So here's the issue. I want to pass the California Seismic exam. I don't know how to...
This has probably been treaded before. For infinite load surcharge, we often take an equivalent height of soil, aka active wedge method. For finite strip loads, we're told by every textbook to use 2q in soils. But that leads to a maximum pressure that is 3x as much as with the Active Wedge...
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I am not a driller, I am your book-smart white-collar geotechnical engineer. I am located in NY. Drillers are typically limited to your standard, 2" spoon, 3" spoon, retainer baskets on the spoons, NX, NQ, HQ. Let's ignore clay samples for now. I'm asking for master drillers because...
It's always been convention that the stationing from the beginning of a horizontal curve to the point of intersection is equal to the tangent, and the stationing between the beginning of the horizontal curve to the end of the curve is equal to the length of the curve. I've been just accepting...
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I'm studying for my Surveying exam. From Barry Kavanaugh's textbook I have the following problem. I tried to solve the bearing portion first based on the fact that a five-sided traverse has 540d interior angles. Then I found out that I have two unknown interior angles, not one. Of...
