Whether with a Ph.D degree one can become a good teacher?

In my college days almost forty years back we had many extraordinary and excellent faculty who were not having Ph.D degrees but they were wonderful teachers and left a mark on us for all times to...

05 June 2019 8,199 1 View

Regarding consumption of steel and cement per square feet floor area Just a thub rule to estimate quantity?

In an average height building, let us say 10 to 15 storey building, with raft foundation what is in your opinion should be the consumption of cement and steel per square or per sq, meter of the...

09 October 2018 6,821 2 View

Concrete and related structures

Many structures are designed using concrete. Though the concrete has been the most misunderstood material and there in general belief amongst the untrained workers that concrete can be made...

01 January 1970 7,699 0 View

Deflection of two way slabs

Deflection of two way slabs is entirely different from one way slab or beams. Due to typical boundary conditions the deflection is less than the case of one way slab which deflect in cylindrical...

01 January 1970 979 1 View

Recent Bridge collapse in Taiwan and reasons thereof for such collapses?

https://time.com/5689967/arch-bridge-taiwan-collapse/?linkId=74583417 We are witnessing spurt in collapse of bridges in recent years which is a cause of concern for bridge designers!

01 January 1970 2,110 1 View

Good teacher and bad teacher

We all have experiences from school days to our higher education that we liked teaching of few teachers. Our liking for some subjects was also influenced because of this liking. In your opinion...

01 January 1970 1,092 19 View

Awarding credit points on the basis of online open course ware

In recent time many institutions are providing Massive online opens coursewares (MOOCs). Many universities are accepting any online course completed by a candidate on these platforms. Are the...

01 January 1970 4,316 0 View

Experience of learning a subject ?

We all have unique way of learning a subject. It will be interesting to share our experience of how we started learning a particular subject easily in comparison to others. Probably it will help...

01 January 1970 6,336 5 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

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what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View