Engineering is about managing risk. Sure we have codes to design with, but do you know that codes provide minimum requirements? I believe that’s why most of our brick houses crack – “…
Anyone can do a structural inspection! At least, that what it looks like when you Google “Structural Inspections Perth”. An “Inspector” will visit your structure, and create a …
November 1 marks the official start of the Australian tropical cyclone season, and although Mother Nature is wreaking havoc in Vietnam and The Philippines, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) currently ad…
People often ask me how I get the time to write my blogs. Well it’s a fact, we all have “the time”. Oprah, Elon Musk, you, me, and some random lazy couch potato, all have 24 hours each day. No m…
Last Tuesday marked the latest construction death in WA – when a glass canopy collapsed at a construction site at Curtin University, killing a young apprentice and injuring several others. Last …
So you’ve run a finite element analysis (an FEA) of a mild steel “thing” and have a lovely looking stress plot, but wait! Some stresses are 800 MPa and glowing red! What should you d…
