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    getting the shaft by boss

    I am an engineering tech (civil, geo, cmt) with a major engineering firm and I need advice on a problem I see coming in the near future. The deal is our company is working on a large industrial construction project that is located only 4 miles from my house but 60 miles from our office. My...
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    salary vs cost of living

    salary vs cost of living My company has a job opening in our San Diego, CA office that sounds very interesting to me. I read that San Diego is in the top 5 of most expensive cities in America to live in so I doubt I am not going to be able to live in San Diego on what I make where I am at now...
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    ACI-318 and interesting core results

    10k PSI concrete in a 15” x 24” column with 8 # 7 verts. The mix = Type I = 495 Slag = 270 Flyash = 135 Natural sand = 992 Stone # 7 (3/8” max) = 1930 33 gal water 153 oz high range water reducer slump 6 to 8 post SP air 1 to 3 W/C = .31 One set of 6 test cylinders (6”x12”) Two 7 day breaks =...
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    correct column tie spacing

    I have been inspecting rebar and PT installations for over a decade and I have the ICC Reinforced Concrete Special Inspector certificate. I have previously worked for a premier structural engineer in the SE as shop drawing review and field inspection. Now I work for a testing lab doing...
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    ASTM D4015 is tricky, what's it mean

    Anybody ever performed the ASTM D4015 Standard Test Methods for Modulus and Damping of Soils by the Resonant-Column Method which covers the determination of shear modulus, shear damping, rod modulus (commonly referred to as Young’s modulus), and rod damping for solid cylindrical specimens of...
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    are non-ABET degrees worthless

    I have 16+ years of experience as an engineering technician (CMT-concrete, asphalt, soil, soils lab, rebar and PT insp.). I have just about every certification that an advanced tech can get. I have passed the NICET Level IV tests in three areas (CMT-concrete, asphalt, soil), and have several...
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    understanding metamorphic rocks

    Metamorphic rocks are rocks that have been changed either in texture or in mineral composition by any of the following: heat, pressure, directed pressure (stress), shear, or chemically active solutions. Changes that take place in weathering and lithification (change from loose sediments into...

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