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Are Racking Loads PC?

Are Racking Loads PC?

Are Racking Loads PC?

(OP)
Hi all,

Sorry if I seem to be lowering the bar but in the interest professionalism I'd like to ask if the use of the terms "racking" or "racked" when referring to the displacement caused by lateral loading of a frame is still the preferred terminology. In the past several years I have had several reviewers object to the use of the term on grounds of politeness but I don't know how else, in a single word, to describe the failure/displacement mechanism.

Again sorry to bring the conversation down to a bathroom/lockeroom level. I guess in the practice of engineering I have gotten desensitized to the bold use of words that would make a grade school kid titter. I mean really this one is rather tame I think compared to some others in common use.

Regards
cab

   

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

Personally, I always thought it was a measure of the number of hats and coats you could hang off a four-point buck.  

That being said, I still use the term for non-specific lateral forces on a frame.  But rarely.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

Lateral displacement
Horizontal deflections (displacement)
Frame sway

 

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

It moved too far sideways and just broke.  Don't know why.. It just did.  Then you are racked...

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

next you'll complain about male and female couplings.

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God forbid using any nuts and screws!

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

WOW....   I can't play here any longer, it's too complicated, I just don't get it anymore.

Charlie....   Did they ever explain to you, what in their dirty little perverted minds 'a racking load or movement' in the structural context meant, or how it offended them?  Maybe you need some new, unstupid, reviewers, or at least explain to them that you are equally offended by having to deal with their little minds, even though infrequently.

Mike.....   In engineering we'll never get the big bucks, but I usually try for a more-hatter, than four points, when deer hunting.  And usually hope to meet a dear of the fairer sex after hunting who also has a nice rack.

JAE....    RE above, after hunting; I meant two frontal lateral displacements, the ones who still have horiz. deflections instead of drooping cantilevers are too young to be interested in me, but not me in them; and from behind they have a real nice frame sway.

MiketheE....   ya got me.

Rb1957....   Today you are not PC if you limit couplings to male and female, you must be any (all, same kind) inclusive.  But, sell em an extension chord or air hose with both male or both female end fittings and they will better understand where you're coming from or going to, and your dirty terminology.  What they do with that extension chord in the privacy of their own home is their own business and none of ours.  But, if they need that extension chord in an emergency they will better understand the utility of male and female, a wonderful combination, sometimes.

Now I'm gona hit the rack and rack up a few ZZZ's.

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

i'm happy not being PC, in fact i (and i suspect most of us) take it as a compliment.

i've aways found male couplings, well, don't, umm, "couple" together ... maybe it's a fallability of our design practices.

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

We, as responsible engineers, must fight back against this PC rubbish.  How many more perfectly fine words do these idiots want to steal for some stupid new meaning?  I must be living in a bubble...what does "rack" mean to them?

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sigh ... breasts  

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

If bored - Google "Sex Nut".  I guess I won't do that at work - but check out McMaster-Carr or Grainger.

Most of you see them EVERYDAY

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Thanks for the education, rb.  What useful word will these nuts (oh, that's one) will rule out next?

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

Hokie:

You've been away too long.  The expression is '____ has a nice rack,' but of course us clean minded engineers would be referring to 'a pipe rack,' 'a coat and hat rack,' I racked my brain to think of some others, but the better side of my brain reverted back to more important racks, because I already got my ZZZ's for the afternoon.

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

I admit to being a troglodyte.  I think we were equally as crude in my day, and we had names for various parts of the anatomy, but I was unfamiliar with that one.  Guess I'm just not up with the current "culture".

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Rack on.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

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I have also heard them called 'lungs', do doctors then have to stop using that term.

"you have a problem with the organ that processes the air you breathe...."

h

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I hope you never have to submit an erection plan.

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There's quite a few structural/construction terms that have a sexual connotation, but I have to bite my tongue or they're sure to pull this thread.

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

csd - your post reminds me of the old joke:

What's better than roses on a piano?

Tulips on an organ.


tg

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hopefully we've succeeded in making sure no-one ever asks about political correctness again.

mind you, it'll be a shame, as this has been one of the most amusing threads in quite a while.

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(OP)
haha thanks all. i think i will stick to my guns on "racking" loads and displacement. but "sway" is a good option in a pinch.
cab

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Structural20036:
Good one. Many years ago we designed a pool enclosure for a nudist club. Of course the designers never got to supervise construction. The erectors named themselves, wait for it------ The Erection Crew.

Sorry, don't get to tell that true story very often.

LonnieP

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Charlie:

You be damn careful who you pinch, and where;  that can be a face slapin offense, in many cases.  

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"stick to my guns" ... carefull, guns = racks  

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Steel erectors here in town goes by the name "Big Boy Steel Erection"

No Lie

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personally i like "Snap-On Tools"

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Sure doesn't take much to set you guys off, does it?

I did say "set".

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

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OK, you made me do it... how about "roof mounted"?

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You know, if you use a little Metal "Richard" on those walls, it should cut down on the racking in short order.

"Richard" = Deck = hemmmmm

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So, I said "I mounted her on the roof," when he asked about TV dish.   

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True story:

Several years back, a buddy of mine and I were having dinner at a neighborhood Chinese restaurant.

As the conversation turned to Canadian politics, he mentioned a BIG ELECTION having taken place.

I immediately reminded him that such statements could get us in trouble in this type of restaurant.

tg

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Tg....  but they would have no trouble understanding you if you said 'I have a big cantirever.'   

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ther's a local radio station here that would put on some joker deliberating making that well known dyslexia ... got old quick.

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dh,

You know you have a problem when your canilever becomes your cantilever...although there are pills for that.

tg

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What about common name for concrete vibrators?  donkey  d__k

Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com

RE: Are Racking Loads PC?

What did the aircraft ground handler do after parking the airplane, when he realized he'd accidentally scraped the vertical stabilizer on the hangar door frame?  

He went out to pick up a piece of tail.


Those who like old folk songs might want to look up the "Woodbridge Dog Disaster" for a funny story about how "innocent language can sometimes sound crude".


Charlie, if the drawing checkers are getting you down, challenge them to a game of chess instead.
 

Steven Fahey, CET

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