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Very insightful thank you Brendan

great video for a carpentry apprentice to stumble upon. Very informative and relevant to Australia. Thanks Brendan

Appreciate you leaning into better video production. This was a great watch!

For the axial forces.The E to the left hand side is deformation (delta).

I'm a structural engineer and I'm taking my masters in something called "Digital building processes" which include every type of digitalization in the industry - BIM included. I found this video very interesting since there is not a lot of civil engineers that talk about this enough. Thank you for this great video.

Hi Brendan, great introduction to structural forces for engineering students and especially builders who can now appreciate the reason behind our designs. This type of information is important and valid. Malik

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One more query - 1 factor which i often see in job descriptions and earning promotions is 'communication skills' demanded mostly by employers so how does in work exactly in our favour to get quick growth in terms of money ?

Sir how to identify & find the companies with most attractive/high payscale and greater growth as an outsider without having any friend working for them ? Which signs to look at for and how to find such companies in LinkedIn and google..

Sir do you earn 150k dollars a year in Australia? Plz reply. Thanks a lot.

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How ur handling ur expenses after resigning ur job ? Business or UA-cam monetization?

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Supply and demand for example in Finland every year: 10000 studentplaces, 5000 graduate and only 3000 engineers will find decent job. It has been like this over a decade already. Its not common to see engineers in food delivery, warehouse worker or in other cheap labor job.

First time somebody mentions OpenSees outside of academia. It’s welcome surprise for sure. I hope more people used it I know it has a steeper learning curve than other proprietary software, but as you said it’s got a faster running speed for both linear and nonlinear analysis. The only caveat is that the design modules for the different materials would have to be created by yourself but I think if you invest the time you can get your own package to do the design checks. Lastly, a software by Asdea gives OpenSees a GUI however you have to pay, but I think it’s still much less than ETABS or the like. Otherwise, you would have to create a GUI yourself for OpenSees which I don’t think should be hard but definitely time consuming and one would be responsible for maintaining it. I hope more and more engineers use OpenSees, I used it in my research I can attest it’s a couple decades more advanced than commercial software.

I remember that 2/3 of the cables in the legs missed the anchor points.. & we made “strong backs” / whalers to anchor the cables between their designed anchor works….. Our work is buried in depths of all that concrete..👍 Strong building

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Do you recommend structural engineer book for architects to learn the basics or some important principals?

Engineer here, payment is horrible... It was my biggest shock becoming an engineer and I do want to leave the engineering field for a better paying job.

Good & informative video. Thanks Brendan for sharing such kind of informative videos.👍🏻

Excellent issue .. Plz can we sumrmay that there is 2 type of connect fist shear and second moment. 1. For shear the distance between the bolts and between bolt and the edge = 7.5 cm 2. For moment Conection the distance between bolts and between bolt and the edge = 5 cm Is that true plz .. Thx

There is only one way wages will go up, like the medical profession they are gate keeping how many doctors can join the field and they always make sure the demand is higher than supply hence the high wages.

Milford Haven is the name

This is probably the best video on this topic, no wasted words, just facts.

Excellent content, following from Paraguay, can you talk about tall building books and online courses?

HI Brendan, I'm a 38year old carpenter apprentice. When working in the carpentry jobs on site, I always think why the structure is designed, such as: if the post depth is shorted how will it be a concern to a house, why an installation using 3 screws not 4 screws, etc. That's make me considering to study structural engineering for interest and maybe even helping me in design a house structure in future. However, I'm already 38, I need to work for my bill, I dont' have so much money and time to study a full-time degree. Could you give me some suggestions? Any website or short course, etc. suitable to me to have a beginner start to learn about structural engineering? I still don't know if I really want to study a bachelor or master of it. I performed bad in pure mathematics in high school, these two days I tried to have a quick look about the maths I learnt in high school, I have some confidence I can do better now. At this moment, I don't really imagine I will be a certified structural engineer to build a bridge or skyscraper, but I actually want to learn the art of how structures are designed and calculated? Thanks.

Thanks for sharing all this career advice. I believe that all young engineers need to learn from stories like yours :)

Great video! Would you be interested in a collaboration and being a guest on my podcast to share your career journey? Thanks, Daniel

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Humans should have never built straight up. Reason is safety-be it from earthquakes, tornados, sinkholes, corrosion, liquefaction, or fire. An evacuation plan was always lacking. But far more than that is that the sheer density of very tall buildings impedes infrared light from reradiating effectively to space & keeping it trapped. This light is thermal. Add to that the typical dark surfaces of the area--various shades of grey & steel & it gives us the urban heat island problem.

The initial zoom sound brought back trauma. Legit thought I was in a meeting room

Architect / Engineer venustas / utilitas / firmitas Character / Economy of Means Use the simplest and most cost-effective design strategies. Embrace and use the inherent qualities and beauty of materials in a way that is true to their nature. Design, propose and push for multi-functional spaces that can serve various purposes, reducing the overall size and complexity of a building. Embrace minimalism, not as a fashion or trend, but as where simplicity and clarity become the main aesthetic and practical virtues. Pompous and conspicuous architecture? Not

Architecture and engineering are an amazing thing. Shouldnt be separated in any way, and share the responsability of the project itself. Architects must have enough knowledge to not just pass a idea/concept and expect a magic practical solution fron the engineer, unless exist an agreement on that. Remember: firmitas, utilitas, venustas. Add character and must consider economy of means. Use the simplest and most cost-effective strategies, a frugal approach to the design and construction process, using materials in a way that is true to their nature. Design multi-functional spaces, reducing building size and complexity. Minimalism, "less is more". Avoid "Pompous and conspicuous" architecture.

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Great insights for engineers and the role we should have in society. The average person sees engineers as a last resort in construction industry for when problems arise. The government should also let engineers do they job and stop intervening how we should conduct our work. There's a slogan I shared with students " Civil engineers helps civilized civilization" Malik

Nuclear technology and safety have improved. That is exactly what the promoters want you to talk about. That discussion is a distraction, and if you only had limited time like these comment postings and you spoke on their topic, YOU WILL LOSE. They go from the maco (no CO2 emissions) to the micro look at the energy in this 1 kg uranium metal. Millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of customers need clean energy. And the nuclear GRID electricity energy would have to go out to 100% supply. 7 times bigger. 7 times nothing is not very big. 7 times the national electrical GRID is insanely expensive. Nuclear just wants to monopolise the existing national grid. With government disaster insurance and Government guaranteed cash flows. Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch Skynews and LNP are strongly promoting nuclear electricity. Bill Gates monopolised software. Rupert Murdoch is paying $3 billion. LNP, the Australian political party's, Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro expansion project budget is exploding from $2b to $15b and years longer. French submarines contract cancelled at $billion??? Now 6 USA nuclear submarines. Uranium yellowcake exports will explode to pay for no coal exports. My point is that nuclear promoters talk about new grid costs to renewable energy and ignore their own grid limitations while promoting the sunniest continent in the world to go nuclear. And refer to EVs and Utility Factors and new grid costs and monopolising existing national grid. This is an engineering problem, and we need more engineers to analyse and speak up. Maybe you have to be a Construction Engineer to understand. Thank you for giving me a forum to speak up. You may be limited by your employers on this topic as $millions will flow to engineers by nuclear solution. Labor is pushing grid renewable energy, and it has the same problem as the opposition is pointing out. The new grid costs. Only engineers are experienced and qualified to speak up. Community batteries are an excellent start. 30 homes in my street can generate 1 mWh. Daily. Hornsdale BIG BATTERY is 200mWh. So 70 streets but as the sun does shine daily, then 200 or 400 streets can benefit. And no new grid construction. As selfplug-in V2G EVs come onto the market the community battery can be relocated to slower EV adopting suburbs. Rooftop solar PV is cheaper than windows $/m2. Nobody does the maths.

More should spoken on the performance based design in structural engineering

Good insights.

Honnestly, the main problem is that saving resources takes time to optimize structures. And when your employer gives you two weeks, you have two weeks. I would love to engineer better, more durable stuff. But durable is not profitable, and better is costlier. Shitty designs are rarely made by choice sadly.

Hi Brendan, can you suggest some recently used concrete optimization techniques or in terms of analysis, reference materials/papers about performance based design in structural engineering?

Just what we need, “woke” engineering. When the building collapsed be happy with the thought that DEI was foremost.

What is your opinion on structural optimization techniques? It is used extensively in the automotive and aerospace industries. How popular is it in structural engineering?

just google world's most boring jobs. make sure your kids never go into stem. let them live. become a teacher, get paid the same as an engineer and actually talk to people all day.

Engineers can be very valuable in general to society. All graduates education costs are heavily subsidised by society. We owe society. My latest insight is in the no CO2 emissions on climate change (or destabilisation). Electric energy is 15% of all energy used. 100% clean electric energy is a x7 more electricity and no fossil fueled energy. Electric vehicles, EVs, are the acknowledged transport solution. Australia has 20million vehicles. Say 100kwh batteries, 2,000gWh electricity storage daily. Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day. And will selfplug-in to the national grid. And drive building to building. Australia has 20million buildings and so 6.6kW rooftop PV is 660gWh daily generation. The interesting thing is that Australia fossil fueled generation is 25gW, 600gWh max daily in you are lucky. 400gWh avg. Rooftop PV and selfplug-in V2G EV, with its free big battery, can more than match Australia's fossil fueled generation. I speak up because nuclear promoters say clean nuclear grid electricity is the cheap reliable answer. My engineering tells me to look at the facts. The grid is $1million per km. The grid is 1million km long to 20million buildings, millions and millions and millions and millions of customers. The grid is a $1TRILLION asset and the Australian GDP $1.5 TRILLION. The problem is that x7 more grid capacity is $7TRILLION. And 700 years. The first grid was built over 100years. New grid electricity capacity is a 700 years project. Plus the new, and the extra nuclear generation plants construction costs and time frames. $1TRILLION over 700 years. This nuclear grid electricity appears to be an economic dead duck. Nobody talks about the grid costs in a 100% electric world My observations are that rooftop PV and EV big batteries do not need more grid and can be effective in 2 decades. The existing national grid is protected and unloaded. Rooftop PV is dirt cheap, less than windows $/m2. Big batteries are free with EVs, Hahaha. The stupendously expensive new expanded national grid is not needed. I say all this because Engineers with vested nuclear interests are not speaking accurately. Please comment on this, do the simple maths and then start speaking up. Governments can be influenced. Labour is pushing for distant renewables which have the same grid costs. Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro expansion project budget has exploded. The grid construction costs have exploded the projects $2b to $15b budget. Engineers failed to speak up. Costs are part of engineering and we are part of society. Happy to say more but please look at the economics, the numbers. Engineers are the only ones who can put the real world and numbers together.

The problem is young man, that youngsters (5-15 I would say) are not being encouraged to create, build and do physical things. And this has been true for at least two decades. People have been allowed to be lazy if they want. Bugger all to do with "the environment". Get rid of CO2 and EVERYTHING will die, people just follow the science narrative like dumb sheep and never question stuff, "the science" is wrong. Look at real climate science, look at the hypocrisy and the elites. 6,000 aircraft a day fly over the UK, all those vapour trails make condensation, condensation is cloud. Guess what, we get more rain now in the UK then we ever did and with dull summer days. During lockdown, no planes but beautiful summers. The sinister side? Nobody was allowed outside! Kids need to learn to play in the dirt, build dens, rid and modify bikes and such like as kids used to do. I can remember aged seven (ish) and my class being tasked with building any item, anyting that comes to mind, so I built a speed boat out of balsar wood and painted it black. We didn't win anything, but it got the mind thinking creatively. I am 58, how many kids forty years younger than me, learn how to design, create, cook, modify, develop or such like? Probably less than 5% here in the UK. NO kids want to get their hands dirty, learn to build, weld, join wood. Instead, they want to do useless degress in woke subjects, get fat off junk food and cola and play reality games in a none reality computer game world. Structural engineering will end up like agriculture, nobody wants it or the responsibility. I always wanted a farm of my own, but I now own and operate a welding repair and fabrication business. Lifting, grinding, wleding, painting and fitting steel work. The entire world is on a mess, not just wars but education and future careers.

Insightful !! What do you believe will earn promotions faster and make employee earn most money as some people say don't be the Best but be the ONLY ! or does being a Problem Solver help in achieving massive success at workplace ? How does that work.. any good books on this topic to understand more.. i am an Hvac engineer in AEC construction industry working for air conditioning projects..

Awesome discussion Brendan and ideas I am 1st to comment ✌️✌️

This was in the mid 70’s that was caused by fabrication error.

Great video Brendan! I just graduated with a BEng Hons a year and a half ago. After getting through all that Calculus and trigonometry, etc I worry would i be able to do a job like yours? On my degree there was no tasters of what it entailed to actually work in an engineering office. Is the job much harder than doing the degree?