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Skulemate · 03-14-2003, 05:01 PM

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I'm taking a studio course right now as a fourth year elective. It's a collaborative design class that's mixed engineers and architecture students. Anyhew, this course has offered a series of weekly lectures, and among them was a lecture by Jonathan Sakila, who works in structural glass. It was an amazing presentation... I would never have guessed that glass could be used in such a wide variety of structural roles... beams, columns, walls, entire staircases... really quite awesome stuff.

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Anyhew, back on topic... I was looking at some material properties of polycarbonate, and noticed that it's tensile capacity is quite high (9000psi / 62.1 MPa) compared to its compressive strength (12000psi / 82.7MPa), and that it's flexural capacity is quite high as well. Still, quite aparent that it will fail in tension, as Bill has said.

By the way, I got those numbers here.

03-14-2003, 05:01 PM	#59
Skulemate Cooling Savant Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 381	[off topic] I'm taking a studio course right now as a fourth year elective. It's a collaborative design class that's mixed engineers and architecture students. Anyhew, this course has offered a series of weekly lectures, and among them was a lecture by Jonathan Sakila, who works in structural glass. It was an amazing presentation... I would never have guessed that glass could be used in such a wide variety of structural roles... beams, columns, walls, entire staircases... really quite awesome stuff. [/off topic] Anyhew, back on topic... I was looking at some material properties of polycarbonate, and noticed that it's tensile capacity is quite high (9000psi / 62.1 MPa) compared to its compressive strength (12000psi / 82.7MPa), and that it's flexural capacity is quite high as well. Still, quite aparent that it will fail in tension, as Bill has said. By the way, I got those numbers here. __________________ Michael E. Robbins M.A.Sc. Candidate, University of Toronto 12.1 GHz of AMD's finest (17.7 GHz total) crunching proudly for the AMDMB.com Killer Frogs SETI BOINC: Dual Opteron 246s (Iwill DK8N) \| XP2800+ (Shuttle SN41G2) \| 3x XP2400+ (ASUS A7N266-vm) SETI BOINC: 2x P4 2.8E (ASUS P4R800-vm) \| Crunching 24/7 Last edited by Skulemate; 03-14-2003 at 05:20 PM.