Lecture Help
Flvplayer.doc Note that I gave it a .doc extension. Save the file to your machine and change the .doc extension to .exe extension. Double-click it and it should extract itself and install.
A Year in Hungary Open the file and play the slide show, the music should be familiar. This was a Fulbright year in Hungary mixing business with pleasure.
My Spreadsheet Attempt for Analog Models
"Ya know, ladies love wood....." Here is some context for further research (10 minutes each)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (Right click save-as since they may not run directly from the website
Need some help with spreadsheets and the like?
Try the Excel VBA bar above
This should make you feel better anyway Torture Numbers PDF
A pdf document and a separate Excel spreadsheet to accompany it
Links to the Steelmaking videos from YouTube for the flash video, you must "Save As" onto your local drive
A link to corrosion discussion in steel
Set 1 Introduction Set 2 Chemistry of Corrosion
Set 3 Corrosion Electrochemistry Set 4 Corrosion Thermodynamics
Set 5 Corrosion Kinetics Set 6 Recognizing Corrosion
Set 7 Corrosion Cells Set 8 Water Corrosion
US Steel construction of Metal building and roofing basics
Welding
Some of the fabrication vids I showed in class
Short PDF on Welding Fabrication Guide
Python System Welding for Skyscrapers Nice little building at UNC-Charlotte
Explosion Welding Thermite Welding Induction Welding
Lincoln Electric welding knowledge base for welding information, check it out.
Aluminum
Aluminum Presentations
Aluminum Lecture LifeCycleCosts
Some Aluminum Links for you
Alcan Primary Metal - BC - Homepage
Life-cycle costing analysis
Making architechtural models of buildings (I thought it was interesting)
Here are the blasting videos I showed in class
700 Tonnes Overburden Shot Quarry Blast
One additional vid for you Tchikovski fans Dance of the Detonators
Here are some references/presentations we looked at
Aggregates Lecture Rock Formation Lecture
Rock Fragmentation Questions about rock fragmentation
A very good blasting reference for highway work
FHwA Rock Blasting (38Mbyte PDF) OhioDOT(3-pager)
PCA: Take a Virtual Plant Tour
Portland Cement Lecture (ppt) PC Concrete Mix and Place Lecture
Wood Lecture(ppt) Southern Pine Structural Wood Design
Study guide a work in progess.
Here are some spreadsheets to help out in looking at Stress-Strain behavior
Hyperbolic Curve-Fit
ECIV 303 Soil Stress-strain.xls (right-click, Save As)
Hyperbolic, Ramberg-Osgood, Behavior
ECIV 303 R-O StressStrain.xls (right-click, Save As)