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    Titan sub noise heard on board support ship.

    He was excellent.
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    Titan sub noise heard on board support ship.

    Regarding compartmentalization: in the late 1980s/early 1990s I worked with a professional land surveyor who was an adherent of Religious Science, which (as I understand it) believes that the physical world is an illusion. At the time, we had an AutoCAD drafter who had Bachelor's Degrees in...
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    How much force to lift a beam

    This post belongs in the Student section: https://www.eng-tips.com/forums/student-engineer-general-discussion.1630/ Hint: what is the weight or unit weight of the beam and are there any other loads attached to the beam?
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    Viable masters degree for me?

    I used to work with a guy, now long since retired, who earned three simultaneous bachelor's degrees (mathematics, economics, and physics) from an Ivy league school. He then earned a masters in civil engineering from some other big-name school. He had a long and successful career as a civil...
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    Design of Asphalt Pavement without Subbase

    To eliminate AS in the spreadsheet, just enter an R-value of 0 (zero) in cell B6. If you want to eliminate AB, enter a zero in cell B5. (I need to add more instructions to the spreadsheet, that's for sure.)
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    Design of Asphalt Pavement without Subbase

    Here are a couple of calculation tools that I developed for AC pavement design per the Caltrans Method. I have included an Excel spreadsheet template, a Mathcad Prime 9.0 worksheet template, and a .pdf printout of the Mathcad worksheet in case you don't have Mathcad. I first built the...
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    Design of Asphalt Pavement without Subbase

    If the traffic volumes are small and/or the native soils are good, then there is no reason to use a subbase layer. AC + AB will be more than strong enough. In fact, Caltrans has an option for AC only designs. This is all covered in the Caltrans Highway Design Manual Chapter 630, Flexible...
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    What should I be doing in high school to prepare for going into engineering in uni?

    To follow up Ron247's post, specifically his bullet about communication skills, the most important non-math, non-science course that I took in high school was Forensics (i.e. public speaking). I am a typical engineer type: shy, introverted, and (back then) afraid of public speaking. However...
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    Tanker on fire Northsea

    More likely, a Freudian Ship. :cool:
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    Air valve on falling main

    Why not put a manhole at the high point and use open-channel flow downstream of that? This would also simplify the design of the lift station because the discharge condition would always be the same.
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    Common mistakes by architects

    I tell the younger engineers that I work with, "We prepare plans and specifications for our own amusement. The contractor does whatever he damned well pleases." BTW, my involvement with architects has been as the site civil engineer, rather than as the structural engineer. I have worked with...
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    The way to get old version API 650 (7th or 8th)??

    Finally! The automatic paper feeder for copying and scanning kept jamming, but that's fixed now. There's nothing that duct tape, WD-40, and a 10-lb sledgehammer can't fix. :cool: My paper copy of this document was already about a third generation xerox. I received it from a client that I...
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    The way to get old version API 650 (7th or 8th)??

    Our copies/scanner has a problem, so I will have to try again tomorrow after it gets fixed.
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    The way to get old version API 650 (7th or 8th)??

    You are welcome. I will scan it this evening and post it when I am done.
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    The way to get old version API 650 (7th or 8th)??

    I have paper copies of the 7th Edition (Nov. 1980) and Revision 1 of the 7th Edition (Feb. 1984) that I can scan for you later today. Do you have a preference?
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