About 4 years ago I read an article entitled "How to be a star engineer" which described the best approach to the engineering workplace for a new or graduate engineer to make the best impression. It went into some detail about the qualities of a "star" engineer, who is not necessarily the...
I've been told of a past instance where an MDPE pipeline jacket became brittle and subsequently cracked, requiring the whole jacket to be removed and re-extruded. The cause was said to be related to the antioxidant levels in the plastic. Can someone please provide a quick lesson on...
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I've got a steel cylinder to the sides of which I'm welding 2 diametrically opposing padeyes. The padeyes are attached to steel ropes which are applying a load logitudinally to the cylinder, in other words the load is trying to shear the padeyes from the...
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I'm in the process of updating the departments engineering library and wondering if anyone can recommend any books/handbooks for inclusion. I'm looking for the sort golden nuggets that people 'couldn't live without'; engineering bibles as it were.
The company is a manufacturing plant and...
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I'm trying to find a way of analysing stresses involved in attaching a padeye to the side of a relativly thin-walled hollow cylinder. To do this I've assumed the cylinder to be a flat plate and then propose using standard beam bending theory to calulate the maximum bending moment in the...
Can anyone provide a referenced source for a calculation method for assessing stress induced in flange bolts when the flange is subject to a bending moment. I think I'm right in saying one simply takes a moment about a fulcrum point for each of the bolts around the PCD, the fulcrum point being...
