May 7 Structural Failures
"Engineers ... are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make...
Nanette South Clark
May 06, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Fun Anecdotes about Scientists found in Newspaper Archives Published on May 2nd
Michael Faraday and the Gunpowder The Standard , Ogden, Utah, Tuesday Morning, May 2, 1898, Page 5. His Cushion Among the many anecdotes of ...
Nanette South Clark
May 02, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
April 30th--This Day in Engineering History
1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, is born (d. 1855). Image: Oil painting of Carl Friedrich Gauss, by C.A. Jensen. Source...
Nanette South Clark
April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The 22nd Anniversary of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Fatigue Failure--April 28, 1988
According to the Aircraft Accident Report by the National Transportation Safety Board : "On April 28, 1988, at 1346, a Boeing 737-200...
Nanette South Clark
April 27, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Two Structural Failures on April 26th
By definition, a failure in structural engineering is that condition of a structural element (or its material components) which renders it i...
Nanette South Clark
April 25, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Math Cartoons
I believe my hiatus is over. It was brought to you by the H1N1 virus and Christmas. Thank goodness I survived them both...haha. Having sai...
Nanette South Clark
March 01, 2010
