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  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Oil flange redesign.
    Yeah, ok, this is a great learning opportunity. In Engineering design, as in many things, there is a "cart" and a "horse". A...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Natural gas pipe temperature.
    you'll probably need to consider both ... why ? (we can tell you, but you'll learn better if you discover it for yourself).
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Avionics Workshop Training Manual.
    seriously ? 1) be careful of electricity, for the personnel and for (maybe more importantly) the equipment. 2) if in doubt, refer to...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Future Fighters ?.
    that I think was the same opinion of Duncan Sandy's (in 1957) ...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Eclipse 100 error.
    software developers deserve their own ring of hell
  • rb1957
    I can see some "hand wringing" over the single repair patch creating a different loadpath over the skin splice, and how some may want to...
  • rb1957
    Opinions are like ... If I had a to patch over a splice strap, I would probably (depending on specifics blah, blah, blah ...) combine...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Matrix Analysis Problem.
    your problem is that the nodes are co-planar ... so move one node slightly off the plane defined by he other three.
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Fuel Bladder Testing.
    I do hope you get an LPS for dredging up the exactly correct answer ...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Eclipse 100 error.
    sorry, no ... as I don't know anything about what you are doing. Is "eclipse 100" a language, like Python ? You "wrote the code" ...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread How to fix this?.
    "Mrs. KootK, who is also a structural engineer, ..." damn ! I can just imagine the dinner table discussions ! (c'mon, smile)
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Eclipse 100 error.
    I assume you don't have a user manual, nor anyone who has used this s/ware ? have you run a tutorial problem ? It is obvious that you...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread Design tools.
    verifying to what sort of level ? Just running s/ware isn't enough unless it's something like NASTRAN where there is a lot of knowledge...
  • rb1957
    rb1957 replied to the thread How to fix this?.
    Whilst I understand the value of load testing, I agree with Flotsam. Setting up a test would be hard enough, and then what happens if...
  • rb1957
    i was referring to this pic (from reply 19) ... ... which I read as 6.8 kN axial load in one member and 3.2kN shear in the other, so...
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