With one "auxiliary" cable failing in August, and a second "primary" cable failing a week ago, there are concerns that the Arecibo radio telescope could be in danger of losing the main suspended antenna assembly. The observatory has been non-operational since August while the engineering...
This might be old news to some, but I just discovered that SMath Studio is now available as a free mobile app for Android and iOS:
https://en.smath.info/view/SMathStudio/summary
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smath.studio&rdid=com.smath.studio...
I just watched the movie "Locke" with Tom Hardy - it's a brilliant "thriller" following a construction manager trying to organise a massive concrete pour over his phone while driving on a motorway. (Now - that's not a movie pitch that you hear every day!) Highly recommended - and not just for...
Actually - NOT a failure or disaster (but I wasn't sure where else to post), as the roof seems to be intact - but pretty impressive to watch!
Wolfsburg was hit by a major storm two weeks ago, with wind speeds of up to 178 km/hr reported. The stadium roof is a very lightweight cable / membrane...
This is probably old news to many of you, but it was new (and exciting!) to me when I found out about it at my local 3D Printer store ...
A number of filament makers are now producing filaments which incorporate wood, stone, stainless steel, bronze, iron, carbon-fibre, polycarbonate...
We are having trouble importing models into Staad.Pro (e.g. importing CIS/2 *.stp files) where the nominated section properties reside in multiple section property libraries in Staad.Pro. For example, we often design structures using hot-rolled sections (UB / UC etc) for the main beams and...
So I see Staad.X Select Series 2 is now available for download, and it's not being labelled as a beta release:
http://communities.bentley.com/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/b/analysis_and_design_blog/archive/2012/09/05/staad-x-selectseries-2-release.aspx
I will be...
(Please pardon the pun!)
Looking at upgrading our work licences (assorted mix of v11 to v14) up to the latest Prime 2.0 (with a parallel install of Mathcad 5 M010, which is needed to get legacy worksheets into Prime).
My testing has been pretty positive with Prime 2.0 - they seem to have...
I have created a Mathcad 14 worksheet which reads and processes a large binary data file - specifically, a tile of NASA SRTM terrain elevation data. The worksheet works fine using the generally available 3 arc-second resolution files, which are typically about 1 - 2 MB each, with over 1,000,000...
I would like to be apple to apply more than 3 Conditional Formats to a range of cells. Specifically, I would like to be able to apply 1 of 5 different colours to a block of cells, depending on the contents of each cell. I can achieve 4 colours, by using one colour as the default format to all...
I am trying to model a hollow cylindrical marine berthing fender, similar to an over-sized cotton reel. The fenders are loaded in axial compression, and can accommodate 50% axial shortening and more, by bulging out at the mid-point. The fenders absorb very large amounts of ship berthing energy...
I have been looking at buying the $80 "ANSWER Express" CFD package by ACRi.
http://www.acricfd.com/software/answerexpress/
At the moment, I am "playing" with the 30-day free download of the full product (which I gather is not exactly the same in functionality as the $80...
