Recent content by jmcoope3

Just found an electronic copy of a text with a Williot Mohr diagram in it (found on books.google.com "Graphical Methods in Structural Analysis" by D.S. Prakash)... not a Mohrs circle, shame on me for being mechanical. From my reading i'd like to suggest getting Etabs or Risa.

None of you had professors that made you do Mohrs Circles? For shame. This doesn't mean I remember how to begin to make one... I just remember hating them.

Also note, if you put units from a matrix input into an embedded excel it converts them to default units (Length to Meters or feet). I find it to be good practice to strip units before I pass to a table, excel, or graph.

From my use of tables: Units must be stripped before adding to a table (IE Divide the number by the units you wanted reported such as Length/in or time/sec) or added post removal from table ((Data[1,4)*in)... i'm pretty sure it stores all information in a table as a matrix (not unit friendly).

When those sales double, you guys will probably get a pat on the back, or a free lunch, at-least a thumbs up from the owners/salesmen's new BMW. I seriously doubt you'll see any more money. Jump ship, the company is top heavy (they wouldn't be open for six years if they weren't making any...

I remember my first employer making a HUGE deal about me a "33% raise"... to 40k... A large % of a small number is still a small number.

Being exploited and poorly paid is typical. The only way you're going to make more money is to find a new job (easier said that done unfortunately).

I was referring to cost-of-living vs. income... 55k means very different lifestyles depending on where you hang your hat (At-least that's the argument that my California based company can pay 60% of what they pay locals because we operate in southeast).

You're young. 65k isn't bad unless you're in Chicago, NY, or Cali. You're getting experience and bailing on the job before a year mark is a death sentence unless you got sexually harassed or have a documented moral issue. You can either: 1) Make some money, get some experience (1~2 years), and...

The problem with offering services outside of your position for free is that people will take you up on it. I started as an estimator two years ago, and now I do full submittals (Details, Calculations, consulting, etc.) as well as estimation and whatever else they provide me with. Just...

I agree with Mint, call the manufacturer, they should know. If you don't know, don't assume the risk.

MathCAD also has a limit to how big a matrix can get... might be having a hissy if you're getting too large. look into making the output an excel file or a CSV.

It ate the space, but the general principal is to make a piece-wise function using programming statements that cannot be less than 0.

f(x):=|0 if atan(x) < 0 |atan(x) otherwise

Got asked this in an interview, almost crapped my pants: There are three men sitting in a row looking forward, each man can only see in-front of them and cannot see what is on their heads. A box has three red hats in it and two blue hats, these hats are put on the men at random. The man in...