Structural Engineers

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• AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most structural engineers are a lot less uplifting than this.

  Source: I’m a structural engineer.

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  • 5715@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you saying structural engineers struggle to uphold mental structural integrity?

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    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, but a lot of us are more prone to just doing everything ourselves rather than communicating and working together in a big team.

      High yield stress!

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is life really just small beams, resting on bigger beams, resting on columns? Is that all there is every time?

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    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Often we achieve very uplifting things with a huge amount of diligent hard work and planning.

      It’s rarely uplifting in the arty/poetic/slightly “wishy washy” sense of the OP though.

      If you want a specific example, my last project was a big concrete box bridge (6000t), it was built off to the side of the railway and pushed into position using enormous strand jacks. This allowed the railway to remain open apart from ~10 days over Christmas. It took 3 years to do all the design and construction including the temporary works design (construction methodology); all the planning paid off because it was installed successfully, within tolerance and on programme.

      The bridge will last at least 120 years and will allow more rail freight instead of road transportation, which has environmental and social benefits.

      We designed the bridge so that you could install overhead electrification in future if the rest of the network was upgraded (so you could use electric rather than diesel powered vehicles).

      Basically, you achieve impressive things by doing a lot of hard technical work. It’s a bit of a different mindset to writing poems about beams sharing loads.

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• MoffKalast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And here I thought this was science_memes, not bad_engineer_poetry.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Therapist I know once told me that she always tries to tailor her advice into a form her patient is familiar with.

  With a fanboy she’ll talk about Star Trek shields and Superman kryptonite.

  With a musician she’ll talk about harmony and tempo.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great communication but I’d be curious to hear about the times it didn’t work or even backfired.

    I think therapists would have some great standup material. Their drinking sessions would be fantastic

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• paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If a member fails it is in fact because it is too weak

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Too weak” for the specific load applied to it, i.e not supported enough by its community of members

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    • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is the possibility of misconfiguration, but ultimately, a member can be too weak even if the configuration is correct.

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This sounds like something Uncle Iroh would say.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  thanks rocz

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• Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i put a sign in my kitchen that says: never put sheer weight on non-reinforced concrete

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• huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone can build a bridge that stands, but only an engineer can build one that just barely stands.

  Similar concept with therapists

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds of Kipling’s Hymn of Breaking Strain

  www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_strain.htm

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• brianpeiris@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is AI generated, isn’t it?

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is dumb

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What am I supposed to understand from “forces never dissapear they only travel” ?

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