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    Effect of manufacturer supplied sunroff on crashworthiness?

    HI, Greg and Brian. Thankyou both for responding. I much prefer Brian's response, since it gives me some reasonable moral support for my uninformed beliefs :-D , but I fully sympathise with that "can of worms" reference. As it happens, my daughter has now decided to buy a vehicle with no...
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    Effect of manufacturer supplied sunroff on crashworthiness?

    As a retired structural engineer (bridges and other fun stuff :-)) I have been asked to comment on the likely effect of a sunroof on the crash worthiness of a 4WD (Toyota RAV4, if that matters). Likewise, what about the resistance to falling objects? (eg tree branches falling after bushfire...
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    excel 2002 - chart problem

    jghrist, Thanks for your speedy response - it worked like a charm. I remain somewhat puzzled, since the selection in my basic preferences is to 'show all'. Somehow that must have been overwritten for the particular spreadsheet.
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    excel 2002 - chart problem

    I have just tried to add a bar chart to show some values within a fairly large spreadsheet. The chart shows just what I want, provided that I have mouse-clicked within the chart area. But as soon as I mouse click anywhere else the chart disappears, to be replaced by a plain grey block. What...
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    Starting a consulting firm

    I would have thought that '12 years experience between us' is not a good basis for starting up a genuine consultancy. During the period when I used to hire temporary engineering staff (to supplement our own fulltime engineers) I would very rarely hired engineers with less than ten years...
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    seawall

    Hi, V2. If you 'connect' the top of the seawall to your building with any structure that restrains the lateral deflection of the seawall at its top, you will radically alter the distribution of bending moments in the wall. Quite possibly you will generate vertical tensions in the shoreward...
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    Dynamic Load of airplanes on Bridge

    I would use at leat 100% impact. Under wet conditions, a good pilot will intentionally impact the runway quite severely, so as to avoid potential aqua-planing. I learnt that years ago when my plane landed at Hong Kong in a severe rainstorm. We barely knew when our plane had landed at Darwin...
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    Power supply - International comparisons

    Sorry to have troubled you all. I found my answer - http://kropla.com/electric2.htm seems to have all I need.
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    Power supply - International comparisons

    I am trying to compare electricity supply conditions (ie AC/DC, Voltage, Hertz) in UK, Australia, Japan, (and possibly other countries). Can anyone point me to a web reference that would help me?
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    Analysis of pile groups with battered piles??

    Focht3, You are right in assuming that my experience has rarely ventured more than 2 miles from the coast. And of course there is commonly a major difference between pile groups used for deep water wharfs, dolphins etc and offshore platforms. The latter are frequently (if not invariably ?)...
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    Analysis of pile groups with battered piles??

    My comments mostly originate from experience with pile groups for marine structures and bridges, where it is common for the piles to extend a considerable distance above the adjacent soils. I would question the statement that "each battered pile should be associated with a vertical...
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    Out of plumb column

    I would encourage you to just go ahead and reanalyze the column as it has been built. If you want to be slightly conservative, add the 1/500 tolerance to the measured inclination in your design model. Surely there can be no regulation that prohibits non-vertical members? eg, you can find...
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    Monorail beam size

    albresco, It could be worth your while visiting www.standards.com.au. The Australian Crane Code AS1418 has a small appendix dealing with the design of monorail beams, including assessment of the minimum acceptable flange and web thicknesses. My own copy of the code is fairly ancient, and has...
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    What to do about perceived future threats?

    PM, Maybe development would not "cease". All it would need to largely eliminate further plane/building (or for that matter, plane/mountain) interactions would be a reasonably fail-safe system in all airliners that would over-ride the pilot and divert the plane if the system...
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    Calculating for eccentric loads on pad (mat) foundations

    see thread507-4647
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