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Just finished "Structures" by J.E. Gordon.
I loved it! Should be mandatory reading for anyone building real things in the real world.
It's a first principles look into why structures fail (or don't).
Here are my (unedited) notes:
▸ elasticity is al... See more
but resisting lateral loads from wind and
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
Our Goals
We made it lightweight and kept the efficiency in mind:
We made it lightweight and kept the efficiency in mind:
- Self-contained
We ship a single dependency-free binary that runs on all Linux distributions - Fast to deploy, safe to operate
We are sysadmins, we know the value of operator-friendly software - Deploy everywhere on every machine
We do not have a dedicated backbone, and neither do you,
so
Garage - An open-source distributed object storage service
This prototype concrete roof, created by @blockresearchgroup at @ethzurich, has an average thickness of just five centimetres.
#concreteroof #deisgn #architecture
dezeeninstagram.comfast-tracking, in which construction begins before the building is fully designed.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
across the entire range of its components’ physical behaviors.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
Building production is also characterized by a great deal of uncertainty and factors outside the builder’s control. The physical environment is often difficult to predict (whoops, we got seven days of rain, whoops, we found a huge boulder when we were excavating), as is the cultural and regulatory environment (whoops, the zoning board is making us ... See more