Engineering Thread

Peleus

couldnt get any more pictures... priest gave me filthies when i took the camera out. that and i ran out of battery. oh well. ye I might just say wind, storms and fire as ways of failure.

ye limestone that's open to the elements will erode quite quickly. just say rain (doesn't even have to be that acidic). wish my church was made from limestone now...

Is it strictly structural failures or would asthetic problems down the line come into it as well?

desertstorm

it says on his sheet the failure should be due to overloading

Jonathan

Peleus wrote: »

priest gave me filthies when i took the camera out..

He could have given you worse.

Peleus

desertstorm wrote: »

it says on his sheet the failure should be due to overloading

but could that mean aesthetic problems due to overloading? like cracking and staining in the wood making it look bad?

mathew

itll take a fair bit of overloading to bring down a church.. Unless the roof is weak.

Brian

300 words, woot.

Brian

505 words.. aaand, I'm done.

mathew

it only has to be 500 words????????

ours was 1500 last year IIRC..

devinejay

461 words and going strong, kinda.

And yeah, 1500 words is the goal.

Brian

I didn't set my hopes too high.

Peleus

when they say failure, do they mean total collapse of the church or does a bit of the roof falling in count as failure? cos i really can't see this church falling down anytime soon, unless a truck drove into it or something...

mathew

well collapse of the roof would render it unsafe and unusable.. so you probably could count that as failure...

I'd take any failure as a failure, doesn't have to be a total collapse.

...though I'm not the one marking it.

desertstorm

do you think they would get annoyed if you considered overloading caused by a meteor strike?... I mean like theoretically it could happen?...

whoever does this gets a mars bar or similar bar of their choice off me

godtabh

Peleus wrote: »

but could that mean aesthetic problems due to overloading? like cracking and staining in the wood making it look bad?

Get your failures right lads.

ULS
SLS

Brian

Heh, frickin lab report is twice as long as my essay. CivEng gtfo.

Jonathan

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Brian

Qhqr, vf fur fvatyr?

Boston

kearnsr wrote: »

Get your failures right lads.

ULS
SLS

Civil engineering, the study of failure.

Failure refers to the loss of load carrying capacity by a structure or any element of a structure.

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Qhqr, vf fur fvatyr?

V gubhtug lbh unq lbhe urnq nyernql?

godtabh

Boston wrote: »

Civil engineering, the study of failure.

Failure refers to the loss of load carrying capacity by a structure or any element of a structure.

That's more to do with structures. Civil engineering tends to fail on capacity ie pipe capacity junction capacity etc. Each has a built in (or should) reserve capacity or residual capacity.

That relates to structures by ultimate limit state and serviceablity limit state. One details to actual failure the other relates to partial failure but is still useable i.e. crack formation

Unregistered.

There was no joke thread (that i could see/be bothered looking for) so eh,...


Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?"

The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."
The second engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fitted."

TheAmateur

:pac:
Reminds me of this one:

A programmer and an Engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angelos to New York. The Programmer leans over to the Engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The Engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.
The Programmer persists and explains that the game is real easy and a lotta fun. He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don’t know the answer, I pay you $5."
Again the Engineer politely declines and tries to get to sleep.
The Programmer, now somewhat agitated, says "Ok, if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $50!"
This catches the engineer’s attention, and he sees no end to this torment unless he plays, so he agrees to the game. The programmer asks the first question: "What is the distance from the Earth to the moon?"
The engineer doesn’t say a word, but simply reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five-dollar bill, and hands it to the programmer. Now, it’s the engineer’s turn. He asks the programmer, "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?"
The programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look. He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references. He taps into the Airphone with the modem and searches the net and the library of Congress. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to his coworkers - all to no avail. After about an hour, he wakes the engineer and hands him $50. He politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep.
The programmer, more than a little miffed, shakes the engineer and asks, "Well, so what’s the answer?" Without a word, the engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the programmer $5, and turns away to get back to sleep.

Brian

Someone clearly forgot to sign out of their email account..

Also lol@whiteknighting.

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Someone clearly forgot to sign out of their email account..

?

devinejay

JF Eng mailing list abuse, it's bound to happen eventually.

Brian

jmccrohan wrote: »

?

Are you on G0701-List?

Brian

devinejay wrote: »

JF Eng mailing list abuse, it's bound to happen eventually.

The source email address is in our class..

mathew

just looked at it there.. Pretty damn funny..
I'd say he forgot to log out tho...