What is it like being a structural engineer?
This morning started off with 2 hours of pak wu ying ( catching flies ) . Still awaiting instruction from lead engineer.
Arggh, 11.10 am, shits begin to come. Some punching shear check to be
done.
This is the project to design topside components for an offshore oil platform in South Australia. The design work will be done in UK. Topside picture at the right.
This morning started off with 2 hours of pak wu ying ( catching flies ) . Still awaiting instruction from lead engineer.
Arggh, 11.10 am, shits begin to come. Some punching shear check to be
done.This is the project to design topside components for an offshore oil platform in South Australia. The design work will be done in UK. Topside picture at the right.
The punching shear phenomenon is caused by the braces in the trusses ( the 2nd picture) try to punch through or exert force on the connected vertical component of the truss. In short, its just calculating the forces and moments and hope the sizes of the members can withstand the punching game.
Next, I open up some corporate spreadsheets. One computated using API LRFD code which stands for American Petroleum industry, Load resistance force design and the other one Norwegian code, NORSOK. My task is to punch numbers. Input the sizes of members, forces and moments and look at the final results. The so called Interaction Ratio of IR, is an ratio of actual forces divided by allowable forces must be lower than 0.95. Then its should be ok.And that’s its. That’s what I have done for the whole day . And I actually gets paid !!!
That’s one day of being a structural engineer
2 comments:
Hi,
Your project design for American petroleum industry looks to be very nice, I really like to appreciate you for this design.
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Mohit
nitishrocks
before u are a structural engineer, what were you previously?
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