At 08:13 pm 24/08/2005 -0400, you wrote: > > Well, I didn't quite get all the pages downloaded before I > peaked the group's bandwidth limit. What *is* a group's > limit on Yahoo?
Dunno - It's never worried me - I'm a patient man. One has to be when one pioneers new concepts. <grin> > > I'll finish tomorrow because I want the CE department head > to give me his comments. The comment regarding the 1968 > safety factor change on post stressed concrete came from > one of his employees. It led us to a discussion on how > concrete is treated as a liquid. I introduced him to the > B-atm concept and we wound up wasting two hours of company > time on the discussion (4 man hours :-). He loved the > vortex ring idea and overloaded on the images of the > Hutchison Effect. > > He worked on the Cooper River Bridge project. > > If ever a bridge was beautiful. I agree. I like the shear leg diamond design. More sensible from an engineering point of view, than the twin towers cable stay bridge over the Thames..... http://www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk/twinp/colhome/Waverley/default.htm The Thames QE2 bridge is reminiscent of the spindly Tay bridge - the original one that fell down. ============================================== Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. 'Twas about seven o'clock at night, etc., ============================================== http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgdisaster.htm Cheers, Frank
