BBC news report 1 July 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4639671.stm
I am sur there will be a thorough investigation despite no injury to people. However to any structural engineer an arch has been used by our predeceesors to take compression only, usually for uniformly...
I have come across a bell & spigot joint pulling out in front of a thrust block. Except for a small concrete plinth supporting the dead weight of the pipe body the joint has not been restrained and is part of an above-ground installation to a 62" welded pipe system. The below ground portion is...
Is this the right place to get up to date information on the solar chimney?
For those who are not familiar with it a sloar chimney has a large green house at the bottom. The sunlight causes the temperature rises inside the green house forcing the air to escape through the chimney by the...
I did a search and got nowhere and so put this thread up.
Please bear with me as I venture into this forum for the first time and being from a different background. I have to do a small amount of VB work irregularly and started since Basic while it was part of the DOS command.
I have used...
I am not an electrical engineer but have worked in power industry all the time. Power cuts are fact of life and we have them all the time, except in recent years they seem to spread to a much wider area.
Without prejudging the outcome of the investigation into the American black out 14 August...
I am involved in a scheme of specifying large steel pipes, between 3 to 4 m diameter cast into reinforced concrete for a cooling water system of a power plant. I would like some advice on the minimum thickness of these pipes generally adopted by the industry. I know these pipes can be...
