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A Week in the Life of a Structural Engineer
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Hi friends, As I said in last week's email, episode #2 of the timber design series will be sent out next Wednesday. I wanted to quickly talk about two things:
A Week in my Life as a Structural EngineerI published a new YouTube video where I share a typical week in my life. In the video I talk about my routines, projects I am currently working on and tools I use at work. I recorded the week and weekend of my marathon. So I included also some clips of the race. You can watch it here. I also wanted to ask you guys for advice, because I have never posted as many videos on YouTube as I currently do, but the videos are performing worse than before. Please let me know what kind of videos you want to see and why you might have not watched my latest videos.
If you have other suggestions for improvement, please let me know by answering to this email. I really appreciate any feedback! Structural Basics membership2 weeks ago I introduced the Structural Basics membership with which you will be able to access all episodes of the reinforced concrete series and all future newsletters. With the membership you'll also get 30% off my book Loads on Residential Buildings and all future products. But I want to give members more value than just a discount on products and the past newsletters. That's why I carried out 2 polls the last 2 weeks and I quickly wanted to give an update on what I am gonna implement and what not. Question 1: Are you interested in regular online community calls?Only 12 answered with Yes. Therefore I won't do any monthly community calls. But I will ask you in the future again. Maybe in a few weeks/ months more of you are interested in these calls Question 2: Do you want to have the Structural Loads Series and the Engineering Mechanics Series inside of the Structural Basics membership?53 of you answered with Yes. That's a lot of people and therefore, I will make it available online. It takes some time to make the newsletters available, because back then I used a different platform to send out my emails. I will start with the Engineering Mechanics Series and will update you once it's available. I want to give you as much value as possible. But I only have 10-20 hours per week to work on Structural Basics as I am working 45 hours in my full-time job. So I want to work on the things that are valuable for as many people as possible. If you have any requests about topics I should cover, I always appreciate you reaching out to me by answering to this email.
Final WordsThis was it for this week. I’ll see you next Wednesday for episode #2 of the timber design series. Let’s design better structures together, Laurin. ↓ Follow me on Social Media. ↓ |
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The Moment Of Inertia Of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Sections - Ep. #17 Engineering Mechanics Series
Happy Wednesday, Welcome to the last episode of the engineering mechanics series. We’ve made it. Today, is post #16, and I am excited to share content about new topics from next week. Now, let’s get into today’s topic. Moment Of Inertia Of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Sections Last week I told you that most reinforced concrete sections of for example beams are cracked and that the stiffness is reduced once a section cracks. Cracks happen, when the tensile stress resistance of concrete is...
Happy Wednesday, The last 2 weeks, you got an introduction to what the moment of inertia and section modulus are and how you calculate them for “easy” and common cross-sections. BUT, we didn’t cover one of the most used cross-sections in structural engineering, the reinforced concrete cross-section, which is a composite section. So, today, we’ll cover how you calculate the moment of inertia of uncracked reinforced concrete sections, because you need that when you calculate a reinforced...
Hi friends, The section modulus is used in many structural calculations. We’ll show a few of these later in the article. It also depends on the shape and dimensions of a cross-section as the moment of inertia. In fact, the section modulus and moment of inertia of a cross-section are very similar, and often times we can use one or the other. In this Structural Basics episode, we’ll show you the difference between section modulus and moment of inertia. Welcome to post #15 of the engineering...