by Conrad Harrison | 13 Oct, 2016 | Technical Praxis
The beginnings (eg. table of contents) of a guided tour through various aspects of the wind loading of structures. Qualitative Overview Beaufort Windscale Chart The Recent Adelaide Wind Storms Related to Australian Wind Loading Code Design Wind Speeds for South...
by Conrad Harrison | 8 Oct, 2016 | Technical Design
BASIC REGIONAL WIND SPEED Typical Building/Structure V[R] = 45 m/s [162 km/h] mean return period 500 years 5% risk of exceedance for 25 year design life Post Disaster Building/Structure V[R] = 48 m/s [173 km/h] mean return period 2000 years 1.25% risk of exceedance...
by Conrad Harrison | 24 Sep, 2016 | software, Technical Praxis
General instructions for setting up environment for use of my spreadsheet collection, either downloaded from here or from ExcelCalcs. To test the installation, I create a new limited user account on MS Windows. I have done this previously for Windows XP, and Windows...
by Conrad Harrison | 7 Aug, 2016 | Technical Praxis
TYPE 1: Reference Library These eWorkBooks are databases or tables of data which are largely constant, and used as lookup values for calculations. They include such things as materials libraries, properties of chemical elements and such things. {MS Access or other...
by Conrad Harrison | 1 Jul, 2016 | Technical Planning
As indicated in earlier posts, now that outside the Adelaide metropolitan area looking for a simple means of continuing to use Excel/VBA and Acad LT as simple geographical information system(GIS). For such purpose I am not overly concerned about geographical features...
by Conrad Harrison | 21 May, 2016 | Evidence of Suitability, Technical Documents, Technical Praxis
A truly independent technical should not require access to the designers notes and decision making process, and thus should not require any submission of calculations. An independent review should only require access to the specification-of-intent. With a complete...
