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The number 10 in Civil Engineering - Grunf - 03-29-2012 Dear members, can someone share an idea in regards to the number 10 in civil/ structural engineering. I have a task to make an educational/proffessional poster - the topic is number 10. Any idea or interesting fact are welcome! I was thinking on X bracing (Roman numeral is X), X cracking in walls due to earthquake, magnitude 10 on the Richter scale, crossroad X,... Thanks in advance. Regards, G RE: The number 10 in Civil Engineering - visu - 03-29-2012 Hi, Interesting. You can think of "DON'T" in civil/structural eingineering as well. "X" denotes dont do. I mean Do's and Don't. Regards, RE: The number 10 in Civil Engineering - serra - 03-29-2012 Not only is the cracks path on the shear walls, but the isolines in pure tension of a prismatic body. X is also a detail for butt-welding thick plates. X, creating a union between points of a rectangle, denotes its geometric centre, or centre of mass if it is homogeneous.. In hydraulics, it is used to denote a valve. It is the double of V (roman)! Combining 2 V's we get X (><). 10 is the number of Arabic Digits, origin of contemporaneus mathmatics and the metric system. Ten is a common base to describe great numbers and the most common base for logarithmic operations after the Neplers number "e". RE: The number 10 in Civil Engineering - Diquan - 03-29-2012 Dear Grunf, How about the X for the coupling beams for walls. ex. RE: The number 10 in Civil Engineering - rusty - 04-01-2012 some ideas: railroad switch bridge lateral wind-bracing pylon the construction worker and engineer |