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    Is this viewed as flaky behavior?

    I think you need to ask the specific question of what a MS in hydraulics is going to get you. Maybe some other eng-tippers in that specific field can chime in. Your old boss would be an excellent place to start. If you dont want to bother him, just call a few random firms and ask to speak to...
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    Is this viewed as flaky behavior?

    You definitely sound lost, but it's not a bad thing at your age. Maybe civil engineering design isn't the career you should be following? Many of my friends meandered around like you're doing and eventually just came to the realization that it really was because they weren't cut out for...
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    Negative effects of high water to cement ratio

    I hope he means 4 gal/truck. Either way, methinks some other engineer should make the call. 4 gal/yard roughly takes a 0.42 and makes it 0.56.
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    Negative effects of high water to cement ratio

    OP you sound confused, is this a question of adding an excessive amount of water or not? You go back and forth depending on who you're arguing with. The few gallons a supplier MIGHT hold back at the plant is never an excessive amount. I only comment because you could actually have greater...
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    Temporary Stage Collapse at Indiana State Fair

    I think this issue boils down to the fact that the building industry want's to avoid using a licensed SE in every way possible..and then when something fails everyone is surprised. I think a licensed SE should be obtained any time a large temporary structure with potential to kill a lot of...
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    How to protect yourself from existing dimension problems

    When working in or next to an existing structure, there's always an element of uncertainty when it comes to dimensions. The engineer can show a dimension that is close, but when it comes to something like steel fabrication, an inch off can be a huge deal. I'm just wondering how others go about...
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    Consulting to Construction...

    If you make the switch, I think you have about two years to change your mind. One of my good friends made the switch from being a licensed SE who designed relatively large buildings to working with a fabricator as a field engineer. After a few years I noticed his brain started to shrivel...
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    Girder Camber

    I've done 30m crane runways and cambered them DL+1/2LL per AISE. Off the top of my head, that was about 3/4" if they're designed stiff enough to meet reasonable deflection limits. If you have 2" camber on shorter spans, there's obviously a design boo boo. And yes, cambering is needed on...
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    Make the most of full time graduate school

    Almost forgot, there's a few tricks to freeing up time so you can put together good papers. Learn how to use Engineering Village to find journal articles and EndNote to put together all your citations automatically. Dont put off learning these during your last semester. I saw so many people...
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    Make the most of full time graduate school

    I went back for the MS after a few years work and did the research track as well, fully funded with stipend. My advice is to really focus on setting yourself timeline goals. The research track has the tendency to suck you in and before you know it you'll be there for 2.5 years even though...
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    estimating subgrade modulus

    No kidding, I thought the geotech was supposed to be the expert in soils, why is this question being posed to structural engineers?
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    Crane Column Cap Plate Material Grade

    Note, to prevent prying on the bolts that fasten the crane girder to the cap plate, they must be located outside of the column flanges. (the girder will rotate about the stiff column flange) If not you start breaking bolts at the girder end rotates. Therefore, you have to cantilever out your...
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    Crane Column Cap Plate Material Grade

    I believe it matters from a fracture point of view when you're trying to prevent material from strain hardening. Grade 50 can bend farther before creating plastic regions at the top and bottom of the plate.
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    Crane Column Cap Plate Material Grade

    Cap plates on columns that support runway girders should be flexible enough to allow the ends of the girder to rotate. (pinned ends) This means, the plate has to be thin enough to prevent yielding the extreme fiber so it always remains in the elastic range...or so I believe. Would any of you...
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    Sealing of design by other specialized professional for proprietary...

    I hope you received something in writing from your governing jurisdiction. You cant plop a structure down on your foundation without a licensed engineer. If it were a HVAC unit that's a different story, but this is a structure in itself.
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