General question about reports
General question about reports
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Hey guys
I was just wondering , when you write a report do you exhibit the mechanics and causes of slope failures and so on ? i mean explain why the problem accrued with simple mathematical formulas ? or do you just give the solution and that's about it ?
I was just wondering , when you write a report do you exhibit the mechanics and causes of slope failures and so on ? i mean explain why the problem accrued with simple mathematical formulas ? or do you just give the solution and that's about it ?





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but if your report is reexamined or failure happens in the field during or after construction , justifying this or that solution in the report can help you to avoid problems say for ex who is guilty for the disaster
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Write your report assuming that other than engineers will read it...that means make it clear, concise and without a lot of jargon. Explain any premises, but you don't have to give a math class. Just say what you did and why you arrived at your conclusions.
If your report subject is calculation intensive, then provide representative computations as an appendix item. A cover letter on a bunch of calculations or computer printout is useless.
As for slope failures, stay with your standard of care in your evaluation and your analysis. While there's nothing wrong with being innovative, if you deviate at all from "standard practice", you damned well better be able to substantiate everything you did!
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well its just that i feel professional explaining things a bit , for ex i have this slope failure that i explained by proper classification as well as , how the soil lost its shear strength just by saying for ex : in UU condition blblbla w/o writing any equations . Then , i continued by proving that gabion wall will not work in this case because etc . So there are no heavily explained math equations just physical explanation you know
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But that dude was never an expert , in fact he cares less about lab results and proper classification of the landslide and that's why he got shocked . So , when i am writing my report down i will do the opposite and act professional by explaining what happened and if further instability occurs then that explanation will save me .
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