A tool for design explorers, and an engineer on blast loading.
Eng-Base Weekly | December 8th, 2016
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Andy Tyas from the University of Sheffield shares his experience from researching blast loading: ". . . blast loads can generate pressures with magnitudes tens of thousands of times higher than the most severe hurricanes."
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CORE Studio at Thornton Tomasetti shares some example applications of their software tool, Design Explorer. Set design constraints and cycle through all the possible solutions. Once you get it, it will blow your mind.
Here is a link to the design tool itself.
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Tirstram Carfrae of Arup shares his views on engineering with this short video: "Some architects think that structure and architecture are separated. My passion is buildings where structure and architecture are indivisible."
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Simon Fullalove of ICE explains how the reuse of a previously discounted bridge led to massive budget savings for a new crossing over the Forth estuary. Changing the way the old bridge was used was the key.
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Nadine Post of ENR interviews engineers on the potential of steel-fiber-reinforced concrete to decongest rebar in seismically designed link beams.
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