Are Fire Protection Engineers in California required to be licensed in some other specialty of engineering such as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, etc. ?
Or, is FPE a separate licensing/registration category unto itself ?
Must reports prepared by such FPEs be signed and sealed ?
In order to use HydroCad as a tool for calibrating the TR-20 hydrology model it would be necessary to vary all of the parameters used as input to TR-20. For example, I would like to model an existing, urban, gaged drainage basin which has an area of 8,525 acres ( 13.32 sq mi ). I have rainfall...
I have a hypothetical stormwater system I wish to analyze in HEC-RAS using unsteady flow. I can generate hydrographs in HydroCad easily enough but getting them into HEC-RAS is a problem. I can enter them manually but that is a terribly tedious, and error prone, process.
Has anyone found a way...
NRCS TR-60 (2005) Earth Dams and Reservoirs
I am attempting to design an earth dam near Salem, Oregon, USA using the National Resource Conservation Service’s TR-60.
TR-60 includes a dimensionless rainfall curve ( Fig. 2-4, page 2-12) which is prescribed to be used in the design of the dam...
Just a warning. The free program, Mannings.exe,which was posted on this site, appears to contain some errors.
http://www.wq.uiuc.edu/dg/Equations/Mannings.exe
For example;
As most engineers know, in a circular pipe, the velocity of flow at full depth is the same as the velocity at half...
"The following equation is used for minimum pole embedment:
embedment=(1.18*P/b*S1)*(1+(1+(1.88*b*S1*H)/P)^.5
S1= soil compressive strength, P=Lateral Load, H=pole height, b=pole bearing width
(Some)program(s) use a minimum embedment value of 4 ft.
The above will allow up to 1/2" movement at...
Anyone using OpenOffice.org's FREE spreadsheet and other alternatives to Microsoft's versions ? Problems, comments and suggestions would be useful additions to this forum.
http://water.usgs.gov/osw/streamstats/ssonline.html
Has anyone used this program ?
What have been your experiences with it ?
Have you compared it to other regression equations used in your geographic area ?
" In the last few years many vehicle manufacturers that offer all-wheel-drive recommend replacing all four tires if one tire is unserviceable. Although Toyota doesn’t seem to have a specific recommendation, here is what Volvo recommends for their all-wheel-drive vehicles. “When tire replacement...
Experienced SWMM users, please help.
The User's Manual for EPA SWMM5 says that rainfall and other weather data is available on line from www.ncdc.noaa.gov in a file format called " DSI 3240". I have tried for three days now to find and download such data but with no luck at all. The ncdc site...
Is it possible to remove the air conditioning components from a 1999 Toyota RAV4 and replace them later if necessary to use the vehicle for a trade in ? How practical and or expensive might this be ? Would better gas mileage be achieved by doing this
I just installed EPA Net2 on my computer in a directory called C:\Program Files\ EPANET2.
When I attempt to launch the program I get an error message that says EPANET2W can't find EPANET2.dll. But the required .dll file is in the same directory. Anyone else had this problem and know a...
I just installed EPA Net2 on my computer in a directory called C:\Program Files\ EPANET2.
When I attempt to launch the program I get an error message that says EPANET2W can't find EPANET2.dll. But the required .dll file is in the same directory. Anyone else had this problem and know a...
I have an external hydrograph. I don't know the drainage area, the rainfall or the CN....and don't care. I also have a pond which is 8 feet deep and contains 340,000 cf when full. It has an orifice ( 24-inch dia @El. 0.00) and a 20 foot wide by 2 foot hich broadcrested weir at El. 6.00. I...
It would help if you'd explain waht this forum is about. For example, what does UGS mean ? What does FeMap mean ? Do these terms have something to do with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
