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
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






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That being said, I still use the term for non-specific lateral forces on a frame. But rarely.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Horizontal deflections (displacement)
Frame sway
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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.
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i've aways found male couplings, well, don't, umm, "couple" together ... maybe it's a fallability of our design practices.
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Most of you see them EVERYDAY
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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.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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"you have a problem with the organ that processes the air you breathe...."
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What's better than roses on a piano?
Tulips on an organ.
tg
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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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cab
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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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You be damn careful who you pinch, and where; that can be a face slapin offense, in many cases.
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No Lie
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I did say "set".
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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"Richard" = Deck = hemmmmm
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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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You know you have a problem when your canilever becomes your cantilever...although there are pills for that.
tg
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Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com
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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