I make unpopular arguments that are coherent and cogent. Generally the courtesy is not returned to me. Thus, I take your downvotes (which lack any form of rebuttal) as an indication of the accuracy of my statements.
I make unpopular arguments that are coherent and cogent. Generally the courtesy is not returned to me. Thus, I take your downvotes (which lack any form of rebuttal) as an indication of the accuracy of my statements.
It's not just a matter of surface area. You have stress concentrations that will develop in the process of shear transfer across the joint.
Alas, your inner engineer should also think in terms of cost. It's likely not cost efficient to min-max that part of the operation.
As a structural engineer: thank you for being an architect with a sense of pragmatism. Be nice to your engineers!
for the sake of the children, after which said people just take all the money and repeat the process. It works really well.
It goes to the administrators, bureaucrats, and the unions. Then they ask for more because "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" and then people all vote
the tangible reality of what the feminists with power actually do and espouse. Demanding people identify as feminist solves nothing.
consolidate power under the guise of equality. I get it sucks and that you're likely a good well-meaning person, but you have to deal with
of academic and legislative feminism. These are government-sanctioned and funded fields which actively seek to disenfranchise men and
That's not how it works. People like you continue to bury your heads in the sand and completely ignore the absolute bat-shit insane cesspool
would agree with me. If you don't agree, you just aren't smart enough to understand how sophisticated I am."
these type of explanation is often done in an incredibly patronizing and insulting way that comes across as "if you were as smart as me, you
Oh, don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to attack you personally (you were polite in your presentation). I just wanted to point out that
these types of interpretations. Post-modernist social justice lenses are not nearly as intelligent as they present themselves to be.
patronize everyone who disagrees "because they just don't understand" is precisely why more and more people turn away from even listening to
Doing what you did here doesn't help anything. Most people understand entirely what argument is being made and reject it. Attempts to
judgment into metric. Students don't exist in some abstract bubble where they just "learn metric" and the world bends to their will.
are going into jobs with other engineers like me, all of whom don't have the time or money to throw away into recalibrating all their
Again, that's not how it works. I teach as part of my work, and good teaching requires your judgment. Additionally, all these new students
that relearning costs me time and money on the job over a significant amount of time. Not worth the cost to my business to do so.
have a conceptual understanding of how large/small engineering quantities are relative to one another. Yes, I could go "re-learn" this but
for numbers. I'm extremely comfortable working with imperial units in terms of understanding what does what -- give me metric and I don't
It's not as easy as you think. Engineers base a lot of their decisions off judgment, for example, and judgment comes with having a "feel"
Not really. Rebar in the US is sized off imperial units, and sizing structural members is often based on practical imperial values.
The scales using metric units are significantly larger than imperial. Using kN/mm over kip/in makes a big difference.
Not necessarily. In some disciplines yes, in others no. PhD structural engineer, and I'm vastly more comfortable in imperial units.
This is the perspective of someone who has never gone through the publication process in scientific journals.
Forgive him, it was for the greater good.
As someone who teaches upper division engineering at a well-respected university, can confirm.
"Taxpayers, gimme a new stadium or I'll leave! Gimme gimme gimme I want I want I want!!!" -Dean Spanos 2016
Clearly you haven't paid attention to the Chargers the past couple years.