Men Wanted: For hazardous duty Small wages, bitter cold, Long months of complete darkness, Constant danger, Safe return doubtful, Honour and recognition in case of return. Sir Earnest Shackleton, 1914 This was the ad printed for recruiting men for Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole. What a different time that must have been! People willing [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2012’
Pressure Vessel Analysis
The tremendous advancements in FEA software has made conducting stress analysis on designs easy enough for non engineers to develop some potentially dangerous inferences about how a part may or may not fail. One particular instance recently came up that involved the need to validate a design of dished ends of a pressure vessel. The [...]