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  1. DaveVikingPE

    Professional ID Card...?

    I just opened a letter from the State of New York Office of the Professions - it looked just like my PE renewal letter, so I thought at first that they'd not gotten my check... NO! They're offering a "Professional Identification Card" for $20. Basically, this ID card would use my digitized...
  2. DaveVikingPE

    PE Renewel Time...

    So, time to send in $197 to the State of New York... Dig this, from the "Continuing Education" instructions: "...Each licensee shall maintain evidence of having completed the continuing education requirements for a period of six years and be subject to the Department [that's the New York State...
  3. DaveVikingPE

    Recent Salary Article!

    Wow! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/business/01bankers.html?hp ====================== Pay at Investment Banks Eclipses All Private Jobs Investment banking paid an average weekly wage of $8,367, compared with $841 for all private sector jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a routine...
  4. DaveVikingPE

    IPLOT AND 3D

    For some reason IPLOT overrides my black and white color table (bw.ctb) and plots in color those files containing 3D objects. For example, I've drawn a 2x4 as an extruded solid of hxwxl of 3.5 in x 1.5 in x 8 ft. I've got a top, right and front view on a 2D sheet I'm trying to print. On my...
  5. DaveVikingPE

    Obsolete Sheet Pile Section(s)

    I'm looking at a retaining structure, built circa 1950. The sheet piling was Bethlehem's AP3 U/arch pile. Corners, from old plans, were called-out as CP40, which I assume means "corner pile, 40" or similar. I've got a couple of good resources showing my the properties and a profile of the AP3...
  6. DaveVikingPE

    HP Deskjet 5940...

    Got it for $100 - brand new, even! Wow. Worst printer ever. Just doesn't function. Paper jams every single time, gotta babysit the thing. Ugh.
  7. DaveVikingPE

    COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF CHARACTER STRINGS FOR IPLOT

    I used to have what I'm looking for, now it's gone. Essentially, I have a text string in a MicroStation file, to wit: $SYTIME$ The IPLOT routine substitutes the system date and time for this string and I get a what I will call a date/time stamp on my paper output (or a .pdf). I am looking...
  8. DaveVikingPE

    Drafting Tools - Place Section Marker

    When using the subject tool, it always ends up that the circle is on the right. I want it on the left! Any ideas?
  9. DaveVikingPE

    Fonts with an apostrophe, etc.

    Does anyone know of a MicroStation font that includes an apostrophe (" ' ")? Everything I've got translates apostrophes into 15/64 or somthing like that or an omega symbol?
  10. DaveVikingPE

    Enabling Disabled Features?

    I was given a spreadsheet containing multiple worksheets. I would like to refine this spreadsheet by removing several of the worksheets. I'd also like to change the color of some of the worksheet tabs. I'm not able to do either by the usual means (i.e., right-click and delete or change tab...
  11. DaveVikingPE

    wire rope and zinc-poured sockets...

    Oh, the projects I get myself into... In my research on how zinc-poured sockets "work" pertaining to wire rope, I've found API 9B "Recommended Practice on Application Care, and use of Wire Rope for Oil Field Service" and the very interesting American Rigger's Supply, Inc. catalog. I also have...
  12. DaveVikingPE

    Riveted Roadway Grating

    I'm striking out in my web searches... Anyone have any sources/manufacturers/foundries/etc. for steel roadway grating? Thanks in advance!
  13. DaveVikingPE

    A Moral/Ethical/Professional Game

    Scenario: Engineer X works for Firm A. Engineer X is required to work 8 hours a day; he is assigned a slot from 0700 to 1600 - that includes an unpaid hour for lunch. This is company policy. Engineer X accompanies Firm A's project team to a meeting with Client Z at the future jobsite. Client...
  14. DaveVikingPE

    Does phi ever equal zero?

    Is it too conservative to consider phi = 0 for clays? This pertains to computing active and passive pressures on retaining structures.
  15. DaveVikingPE

    Lab tests and possible contamination?

    Any assistance/thoughts/etc. appreciated, re: Boring logs indicate silty sand and sand from the surface to about 15 ft, thence a very soft, fat clay all the way down to the bottom of the bore hole, +50 ft. Triaxial tests of sample taken from, according to test report, 25+/- ft, sure do look...
  16. DaveVikingPE

    Macintosh... Yet again...

    Same question, a year or so later... So Apple's now bundling their new Macs with a program called "Parallels." And guess what it does? It runs XP is what it does. As a lifetime Mac user (home, school) AND PC user (work), I am now SERIOUSLY interested in upgrading my system at home such that I...
  17. DaveVikingPE

    DRIVEN and other pile capacity programs

    Anyone using DRIVEN, the FHWA program for static pile analysis? Or the USACE program CAXPILE? If so, I've run some examples from Das' book on both programs and the results I get are not at all close to the book answers. I've also got the FWHA 2,000-page manual by Hannigan and, as with the Das...
  18. DaveVikingPE

    Report Generation and Formatting

    I have been using several, well-established structural (and other) engineering computer programs for quite a while. One thing that I've never been fully satisfied about is the presentation of the final results. Example: STAAD provides the user with final output in a pretty good report. The user...
  19. DaveVikingPE

    Subgrade Modulii, anyone?

    Are the modulus of subgrade reaction and the horizonatal subgrade modulus just a bunch of springs? I can't explain it otherwise.
  20. DaveVikingPE

    What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

    That is, what's "n sub h"? The definition is elusive. I told someone to think of it as a horizontal spring constant of soil, but that didn't seem to have any meaning and, semi-lazy me, I haven't mined deep enough. Thanks in advance to anyone with insight, etc.

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