"Turn off the generators," he rasped. Silence fell. He tied his plumb bob to a string and held it against the column. The bob swung a full 15 millimeters to the east. The column was not just cracked; it was bowing .
Ramon smiled, showing yellowed teeth. "Fine. Then answer me this: What is the slenderness ratio of this column? And what is the allowable compressive stress, ( F_a ), per the 1980 NSCP code? You can't find it in your software because you forgot to input the end fixity ." Strength Of Materials By Ferdinand Singer 3rd Edition
He pulled out a grimy napkin and wrote:
This is a unique request. Since "Strength of Materials" by Ferdinand Singer (3rd Edition) is a classic engineering textbook filled with formulas (stress, strain, torsion, beams, and columns), a "good story" related to it would need to personify these concepts. "Turn off the generators," he rasped
The young architect, a proud graduate who relied on computer software, declared it a "minor shrinkage crack." But the foreman, remembering the old stories, called Mang Ramon. The bob swung a full 15 millimeters to the east
He flipped the pages to the section on and the Secant Formula .
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