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Qualitative Analysis 19 Apr 2013 | 04:21 am
Analysing structures without recourse to numbers is vital for engineers to have a basic appreciation of structural behaviour, and to help identify errors in computer input from the output. Dr David Br...
Peter Rice – 20 year Anniversary 26 Mar 2013 | 01:51 am
Peter Rice (One hit) the famous and brilliant Irish engineer died 20 years ago this year. To celebrate his significant contribution to the global profession of structural engineering, a few new public...
Micro-cracks in steel 10 Oct 2012 | 01:29 am
Here’s an amazing false colour image of a micro crack in steel, viewed through an electron microscope. Through repeated load cycles such cracks get bigger and bigger with the bulb of plastic material ...
BCRI Young Researcher Award 19 Sep 2012 | 12:08 am
Well the Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland (BCRI) conference, held on 6/7 September 2012, and co-chaired by myself and Dr Alan O’Connor of Trinity College Dublin seemed to go very well.There has...
The Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary 30 May 2012 | 10:32 am
On 27 May 2012 San Franciscans showed the world just how much the Golden Gate bridge means to them with an amazing fireworks display to celebrate 75 years of service. At the time it was built it was t...
Journal paper published – footbridge vibration 17 Apr 2012 | 07:47 am
The paper Enhancement factors for the vertical response of footbridges subjected to stochastic crowd loading has been published in the prestigious Computers & Structures (30 hits) journal. This has an...
Spaghetti Bridge World Record 3 Dec 2011 | 02:22 am
The video of spaghetti bridge world record test is below. The bridge weighed 0.982 kg and held 443.58 kg before failing spectacularly. This is an amazing strength-to-weight ratio of almost 452 and bea...
The importance of units 22 Oct 2011 | 08:47 am
There are some quite serious sites that point out the importance of units in engineering calculations, but a less serious result of an error is the guy who got the wrong slipper! (410 hits) See the ...
Nonlinear beam behaviour example 4 Oct 2011 | 09:19 am
This shows the deflection and bending moment history of a propped cantilever loaded with a point load at mid-span. The beam has a plastic moment capacity of 100 kNm and a shape factor of 1.12. A strai...
Getting properties from CMFCPropertyGridProperty 2 Sep 2011 | 01:15 pm
It’s been a while…but this is a good one – if it is what you need! In Visual C++, the MFC Feature Pack gives the property grid control, but one of the questions regularly asked (see stackoverflow.com...
