Recent content by jester86403

Hello all, Recently I have been asked by my company to start learning abaqus. So I have been going throuugh some problems that have recently been solved by hand and trying to model them. One thing I can't quite figure out is how to model a problem for thermal stress. My problem is a hollow...

connect2, There are also dams, levees, flyovers, towers, retaining walls, and tunnels

Youngstructural, I would believe that to be one of the truest statements in the industry. I also believe being put out yourself is the definition of a favor. I also feel the same way about doing it by hand to check the results. Thats kind of why I started the post. I was told by a few people...

Not all engineers work for large companies that provide the software. Many are small firms or sole proprietors that do not necessarily want to spend the money for all the software. For small jobs that computer efficiency also is not necessarily that efficient if you go through and check all...

I have just been curious lately about what the upper extent people feel is that can be designed by hand or at what point would designing a structure by hand be no longer close at all to using FEA as far as efficiency goes. I would like to get responses for buildings, bridges, and other...

GoldDredger, I do call it that already I just used cost estimate for this board. Also, the estimate is for the City of Phoenix, Arizona. Financing is probably not so dependent on price but the actual benefit. Also there is 11 islands being removed and about 10 trees.

Thanks GoldDredger

Yes landscape islands are the same

Does any body know the price of removing a median in any sort of unit measurement. I am in the US and we are removing some landscaped medians from some parking lots. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I believe the answer is no. You can't call yourself a civil engineer without your PE and if you don't have an engineering degree you can't get your PE.

for the most part pore water is simply hydrostatic pressure in most cases. To solve for excess pore water pressure you can use bernoulli's equation

Thats good because I have been looking at different DOT's consultant prequalifcation requirements and with what they require you need like 5 full-time people to do even the smallest of jobs. How can anybpdy break into a field like that. That means you would have to shell out 10000-20000...

In a case like that does the developer choose the engineer? If not is it left up to the department of transportation? I guess my real question is des the DOT always pick the engineer?

I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge or estimate of how many bridges are built by developers and the like, compared to public departments like the department of transportation?

What is the lifespan of the project? If it is say 50 years or so you can try to find the average temperature for that many years calculate the average of them and add three standard deviations after you calculate it, that will pretty much be the worst case with only a tiny chance of worse ever...