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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7100 on: 17 October, 2023, 03:24:20 pm »
That South-westerly winds are less damaging than winds that are not South-westerly winds. 
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7101 on: 17 October, 2023, 05:28:15 pm »
That South-westerly winds are less damaging than winds that are not South-westerly winds.

Probably because sw is the prevailing wind and trees have grown up dealing with that.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7102 on: 17 October, 2023, 05:44:44 pm »
That South-westerly winds are less damaging than winds that are not South-westerly winds.

Probably because sw is the prevailing wind and trees have grown up dealing with that.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7103 on: 17 October, 2023, 08:32:56 pm »
Just testing to see who read the report on Storm Babet ;)

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Impacts from the these gusts could be exacerbated by the fact the wind direction will be south-easterly. This is a less common wind direction for storms hitting the UK.

The prevailing wind direction is a south-westerly so nature and infrastructure is built with this in mind. As a result, trees and some structures are more vulnerable in strong south-easterly winds.

This is part of the reason why Storm Arwen in 2021 felled so many trees and brought a lot of disruption.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7104 on: 17 October, 2023, 09:10:18 pm »
It isn’t just trees. Structures are designed for expected wind loads and the design wind speed varies depending on direction (amongst lots of other things).
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7105 on: 17 October, 2023, 10:01:46 pm »
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7106 on: 17 October, 2023, 10:46:09 pm »
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7107 on: 18 October, 2023, 10:27:29 am »
That sodium cromoglycate, the anti-spasmodic used in asthma inhalers, was discovered by Roger Walker of Swallows and Amazons.
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« Reply #7108 on: 18 October, 2023, 11:58:43 am »
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.

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Did they use that in DTDD?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7109 on: 18 October, 2023, 12:56:26 pm »
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.

Do you work at Globelink News?

Did they use that in DTDD?

It sounds like the sort of thing Gus would have said.

cygnet

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7110 on: 19 October, 2023, 09:21:00 am »
That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than Kylie
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7111 on: 19 October, 2023, 10:58:28 am »
That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than Kylie
But that's not counting his un-dead years sleeping in the coffin.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7112 on: 19 October, 2023, 11:15:56 am »
Today I are mostly learning that Charlie Harper and Keith Richards are the same age :o
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7113 on: 19 October, 2023, 11:37:16 am »
It isn’t just trees. Structures are designed for expected wind loads and the design wind speed varies depending on direction (amongst lots of other things).
Indeed, BS 6399-2 Cl 2.2.2.3 is my one of my absolute faves!

cygnet

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7114 on: 19 October, 2023, 04:56:30 pm »
Not NA to BS EN 1991-1-4 NA.2.6?  ;D
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7115 on: 19 October, 2023, 07:00:47 pm »
BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.

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« Reply #7116 on: 20 October, 2023, 10:12:54 am »
Not NA to BS EN 1991-1-4 NA.2.6?  ;D
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7117 on: 20 October, 2023, 10:15:29 am »
BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.
I'll file that under 'things I have learnt today' - thanks!

Must try to shoehorn it into a structural report.  "An engineer from this office made a visit to the site on 20 October 2023, and partook of a beverage in full compliance with BS 6008:1980 in accordance with the prevailing weather conditions, which were wet and cold..."

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7118 on: 20 October, 2023, 11:21:22 am »
We had a customer use that one on us, together with one for specifications of a castor for a flight case (IIRC). The spec that they wanted us to quote on was for developing what was effectively a specialised desktop network switch, but it had to meet a whole host of rather dull standards. They slipped those two into the middle of the list to make sure we'd actually read and understood what they wanted. We spotted it, apparently we were the only ones of the bidders who did and declared a non-conformance with those two specs in our response.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7119 on: 20 October, 2023, 11:41:22 am »
BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.
I'll file that under 'things I have learnt today' - thanks!

Must try to shoehorn it into a structural report.  "An engineer from this office made a visit to the site on 20 October 2023, and partook of a beverage in full compliance with BS 6008:1980 in accordance with the prevailing weather conditions, which were wet and cold..."

The beverage, thankfully, was warm and wet.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7120 on: 20 October, 2023, 12:10:56 pm »
BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.
I'll file that under 'things I have learnt today' - thanks!

Must try to shoehorn it into a structural report.  "An engineer from this office made a visit to the site on 20 October 2023, and partook of a beverage in full compliance with BS 6008:1980 in accordance with the prevailing weather conditions, which were wet and cold..."
Might not be such a good idea - seems the standard was withdrawn last month.

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7121 on: 20 October, 2023, 12:16:25 pm »
Is anybody going to tell the USAnians that there is an international standard?
https://www.iso.org/standard/73224.html
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« Reply #7122 on: 20 October, 2023, 12:20:50 pm »
That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than Kylie
So am I, and according to my colleagues I pre-date Hadrian and his wall building shenanigans.

(She's had more work done than me)

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7123 on: 20 October, 2023, 12:42:45 pm »

That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than Kylie

I'm not sure whether that is a typo for 'inveterate', or 'invertebrate'.  See also: TOBAGO thread.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #7124 on: 22 October, 2023, 05:26:48 pm »
That clouds formed by contrails are cumulo-aviaticus.
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