Incredible, although I cannot stop thinking how much work and time went to prepare for those 15 days and if a convencional construction would have achieved the same in the same amount of 'total' time.
I get contacted very frequently with 'wonderful opportunities'.
My rules is that I will hear them out, I will supply my resume ONLY if they have a real opportunity and I am interested on it. I only send PDF copies of my resume. I get a firm commitment that they will not supply my resume to any...
Time is money.
Field welding is much slower, has many more quality problems, requires more complex inspections and possible repairs, more qualified labour and involves more complex set up than bolted connections.
Having said that, sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
In the great scheme of things, replacing a few anchor bolts is a negligible expense on the refurbishment of a structure. I suggest it is considered as an alternative to estimating (or guessing) remaining capacity.
Update from NCE magazine.
http://www.nce.co.uk/news/structures/connecting-pin-failure-suspected-in-delhi-bridge-collapse/8606393.article
You have to be a member to read it. I uploaded a print out of the news...
The question is very vague Delagina, what kind of designing do you do? Bridges/buildings/mechanical/industrial?
In general the decision of using weathering, painted or galvanized steel will come from analyzing a number of factors, such as location of the structure, use, environmental...
To me it looks like the deck did not fail, nor the concreting sequence. I cannot see how concreting in any or other way might overstress the hanger to the deck connections, which, for me, is the failure point.
There was a new's bit saying that not all the hangers were connected, that would...
Buildings do not have that many problems with stability. And I never heard of just stability engineers.
Thinking a bit outside of the box. If they do preliminary designs, would it be possible that they are referring to viability studies?
I would be interested on hearing the opinion of other engineers. In my experience signing and sealing shop drawings is a practice that varies from area to area and from industry to industry. Some companies do it, others not. Some engineering companies require it, other do not.
In fact a...
You do not seem to have a lot of information. I would suggest a comparative analysis.
If possible, you could take an fatigue prone, exposed weld or other fatigue prone exposed detail on the baseplate area and analyze that detail in fatigue as compared to the anchor bolts. If you prove that the...
In my view you need more experience before doing an MBA. Get your P.E. first. Get good at engineering before you try to expand or move into something else.
When I did my MBA I saw a few young kids, too young, too inexperienced studying it and thinking that the MBA was the best thing since...
