All,
Since most people don't know what I do, and verbalizing my occupation is often a better sedative than a conversation starter, I sent my family this email to give them a visual. Enjoy.
Family,
Pop quiz, what the hell is it I do? Most couldn't answer, so while I'm waiting for this program to run it's computations, I grabbed a snapshot of the pipe system I'm analyzing to give you an idea. It's part of a nuke process plant in Savannah River.
Each pipe has to be analyzed to make sure the stress and deflections are below allowable. Most of the pipes you see are 2-6" diameter, about 50' from floor to structural steel. I find out where and how the pipes need to be supported during normal and occassional (seismic) loading conditions. The calculations are anywhere from 600 to 2,400 pages when complete, and I had 2 weeks to finish the 2,400 pager.
Good times…
Each pipe has to be analyzed to make sure the stress and deflections are below allowable. Most of the pipes you see are 2-6" diameter, about 50' from floor to structural steel. I find out where and how the pipes need to be supported during normal and occassional (seismic) loading conditions. The calculations are anywhere from 600 to 2,400 pages when complete, and I had 2 weeks to finish the 2,400 pager.
Good times…
3 comments:
Wow Joe! That's purty.....just kidding! Thanks for the insight into your life! Knock 'em dead on the 2400 pager!
Brian & Sofia's tree could have used some occasional loading stress analysis last night during that windstorm. Part of it ended up in our yard and blasted that section of fence that is removable between our yards out of it's "holder " and flipped it onto our pool fence! Crazy!
Thanks for the update, Joe. I'll stick w/the law. I can understand it and explain it.
how much smarter are we the engineers of the family. j/k (that sounds like a little bit of civil engineering though.) pretty cool stuff joe. i will have to let you know whatever it is that i am going to be doing whenever i happen to start doing it
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