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Quite the range of responses. Some of you misinterpreted the question a little bit, others of you answered it well, so thank you. I just really do not like the constant flattery. You can be civilized, pleasant to be around, friendly without being overly flattering. To me it is annoying to...

My current job puts me in a position of power that I am not sure I like/want. I am an engineer with a big well known construction company. We do a lot of design-build work, so I interact with some of the big-name consulting firms. I am apparently old enough that the champions at these firms...

I am looking for a good book on corrosion aimed towards civil/structural engineers. What do y’all have in your libraries? I am looking for topics on galvanization, dissimilar metals, ambient corrosion rates, etc. Thanks.

Unless the barrel inverts are at different elevations, or the barrels are non uniform in shape/size, the hydraulic radius should remain the same regardless of the number of barrels A = area of flow in one barrel P = wetted perimeter in one barrel n = number of barrels r = n*A/(n*P) = A/P

Open multiple instances of excel, as opposed to multiple workbooks in the same instance. Then you can even have two (or more) workbooks with the same name open.

https://tunneltalk.com It will be interesting to hear what comes of this.

One additional thing to consider: Some dining rooms have very heavy solid wood furniture such as a buffet or hutch filled with that fine china that you are not allowed to use. These items are usually against a wall, so they should not be contributing much to your bending or deflections. These...

Parallel Axis Theorem. And then add (or subtract in your case) the moments of inertia

Thank you. I will look into those options.

I would like to experiment with how different factors influence the driving of a pile, for my own personal curiosity. I do not have access to GRLWEAP. Do any DOTs/Universities have a free version of comparable software? Or is this a completely proprietary analysis tool?

I find a lot of angles that are dual certified, but we still always assume A36 unless we absolutely need to consider 50ksi to get specific detail to work.

I would be more concerned about beach goers than the golfers. I think a golfer would survive the fall. You can see that the top couple feet of material at the top of the cliff is a darker color. It looks like this darker material tumbled off to the left and right sides of the pile. The...

Ts = Cc + Cs implies that the internal forces are in equilibrium (sum of forces = 0). If they are not in equilibrium then something is accelerating.

But I am an Apple Fan-boy

@CBSE With the new writing tools (e.g. Apple Pencil, larger dimension iPad) that are available, I would ultimately like to move all of my pencil/paper handwritten calcs to iPad/PDF handwritten calcs. To expand on that, I would love a mathcad-esque app where I could handwrite the following lines...