A big thanks to Fasteddie82, FastMouse, IRstuff and spongebob007 for those responses. Also, an apology to TheTick, I realize that I should not have made the remark that I did, I was just slightly perturbed some of the more negative responses and acted out. FastMouse, I especially appreciate...
Maybe I should explain my idea of picky, it is not massive salary + perks + time off + hot secretary. I simply want to work for a company that has interesting things to do (can't go too wrong with engineering in that aspect) and respect for their employees. If I start out at $30k a year because...
Thanks again,
I guess just to clarify, I really do desire to settle down in my home city, I really love it here and with my first job I did intend to make a career of it before things went south. Granted, I didn't tell the entire story of what happened at my first job but if you think that I...
Thanks to some of you for the good advice. Thanks even to some of you for the abuse, it gives me a better idea of what goes on in the heads of the older engineering crowd when my smiling face plops down in the interview chair in front of them. I assure all of you that I have never used YOLO in a...
So my story:
I graduated with a BSME about 4 years ago during the worst part of the slump into the "great resession". At this time I was offered a job with a small company who payed me $40k per year, which I took. At the time I didn't care about the pitiful salary because I wanted to gain...
It would make sense to me that the smaller your wall thickness to diameter ratio is the worse your results are going to be. 1D elements would not account for walls warping and changing shape under load. Like how with 1D beam theory as a guide I could design a pretty stiff column with just...
My preferred method for doing this is to project a curve onto the bottom surface where it joins with the top. Then mesh both curves with the same number and distribution of nodes. Then use a merge or equivalent command to make all the matching nodes the same node.
It is a sine dwell at a single frequency, there is not a broad spectrum of frequencies. IR, I guess I am not fully following your point. If we design the resonance and shoot for the ramp up rather than the peak of the resonance. Say assuming a Q of 4 I could just multiply the weight of the...
We have a spec for a sine dwell on a project that I am working on. The level is higher than we can do at our local test facility which is where we would prefer to test. So my question is... Is it unheard of to design a fixture that will resonate at or near the test frequency so that you can...
From my experience you can expect the frequency shifts to align as long as the part is designed to withstand the loading, amplitude shifts on the other hand are much harder to control and to explain when they occur. Most customers will give us a 10% frequency shift spec with no amplitude shift...
I attached a python module that I created to do most of those things. It works really well with the python(x,y) development environment (which can be downloaded for free at http://www.pythonxy.com/) It can import NASTRAN .csv files that are generated with the XYDATAGENERATE command as well as...
I am not an electrical engineer (although I did take a digital logic class) so please excuse the amateurishness of my questions. I think that I may have found a niche market for a specialized usb keypad input device for a computer. The questions I have pertain to how exactly I would go about...
It looks like he is assuming that the pin is press fit. Otherwise I think that the deflection of the pin and the slop in the holes would cause the inner lip of the loaded flanges to carry most of the load. A press fit would make the load distributions make sense. It could also be the reason...
