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  1. GregLocock

    Axial load profile for a submerged pipe. How can this textbook be correct?

    "Is my reasoning correct here?: no as explained elsewhere. Forum shopping will not improve your understanding.
  2. GregLocock

    Electric "missile" type UAV/Drone

    I'm not entirely sure that designing rockets/drones for Pakistan is a great use of our time right now.
  3. GregLocock

    stresses in framed structures

    Eyeballing it the right hand triangle, b is roughly 2^.5*70, and a is roughly 70. Yes changing the dimensions will change the forces in the members.
  4. GregLocock

    Spain and Portugal power grid collapse

    Here's the Australian spec for grid forming rather than grid following inverters. https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/initiatives/primary-frequency-response/2023/gfm-voluntary-spec.pdf?la=en&hash=F8D999025BBC565E86F3B0E19E40A08E
  5. GregLocock

    stresses in framed structures

    I'd be very wary of using a reference that labels a force diagram as a stress diagram. Anyway he's constructed a Cremona/Maxwell diagram . This is good. I'm not crazy about his notation, should have used Bow's. The key to determining the forces in a and b is shown in the little triangle at the...
  6. GregLocock

    Stacking an object

    Each book will have a torsional rigidity (about the axis into the screen in your picture). As you stack them up there is a compressive load due to the weight of the books, and at some point you will get Euler elastic buckling, which for self weight was first correctly solved in 1912. This is...
  7. GregLocock

    Electric "missile" type UAV/Drone

    PK in fact
  8. GregLocock

    Electric "missile" type UAV/Drone

    Possibly, there again this will have the worst performance of any possible configuration except for flapping wings. People in the past have got into trouble for designing cruise missiles and the like (which is not very difficult if you are after minimum viable product performance), I think we...
  9. GregLocock

    Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XIV

    In which dik either demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of %ages, or knows damn well what he is doing and uses them to mislead (a politer version of what I initially wrote). See post 132. The %age is dropping slightly, the coal use is increasing, as Tugboat said.
  10. GregLocock

    Seeking Guidance on Learning to Use ACOEM ONEPROD Vibration Analyzer

    B&K produce an excellent series of manuals and technical notes on signal analysis in general and vibration monitoring. The HP/Agilent intro is also fine...
  11. GregLocock

    Paths to 100% renewable power, globally

    True but does not support your easily disproved claim. Their coal consumption is increasing. 95% of the coal power stations being built are Chinese. Here's the graphs for China
  12. GregLocock

    Paths to 100% renewable power, globally

    The Guardian spills the beans on new power stations in China (yes they are retiring a few as well) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon
  13. GregLocock

    Paths to 100% renewable power, globally

    I wonder why dik keeps pushing this lie. It is easily refuted. Here's what the AI thingo says China is the world's largest coal consumer, using more than half of the global total. While coal consumption has been relatively stable in recent years due to slower economic growth and government...
  14. GregLocock

    Paths to 100% renewable power, globally

    It's cheap and easy apparently https://yle.fi/a/3-10736252 . No mention of the costs of storage or transmission lines. You can do it in Kazaqkstan Transition towards a 100% RE-based energy system was modelled for five scenarios considering different energy system structures, from a limited...
  15. GregLocock

    Snap Fit Design - Insertion Force and Bending Force

    "Another reference.. slightly different equation" That word slightly is doing a LOT of work. Consider the case where mu=1 and alpha = 45 degrees. (this makes me think the - sign in the denominator is correct)
  16. GregLocock

    Electric "missile" type UAV/Drone

    Well you work through the equations. It isn't rocket science, but there again most rocket science isn't rocket science.
  17. GregLocock

    Spain and Portugal power grid collapse

    yup 3 posts. You are currently in the 2nd page of the thread.
  18. GregLocock

    The wheels are falling off the Net Zero Bandwagon 2025 edition

    In South Australia's case (2016) they installed natural gas generators, and hospitals and the like added emergency generators. It also flushed out the errors in configuration of the software for the windfarms. Since then they've also built another interconnector back to the coal powered NEM as...
  19. GregLocock

    Strain energy on impact

    So I've got 5 spring/masses in series, dropped from 1m. SDOF approximation using Gautam's equation m1dof = 1.0103 k1dof = 3.9898e+08 freq1dof = 3162.8 h1dof = 1.0000 Force1dof = 8.8931e+04 max force at ground from 5dof model ans = 9.7014e+04 So this ties up reasonably well with the FEA...
  20. GregLocock

    Strain energy on impact

    Well yes, in your dynamics textbook or lecture notes. Here's a long article that manages to avoid using differential equations, but only because he uses FEA to derive the correct equivalent mass. https://blog.ozeninc.com/resources/anatomy-of-a-mechanical-impact

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