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Checking units and formulas for quick validation of work Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar-powered aircraft project that aims to prove that progress is possible using clean forms of energy. In 2016, the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft completed the approximately 42,000-kilometre (26,000-mile) first circumnavigation…
Structural engineering affects almost every aspect of our lives, often in ways which we don’t expect.Of course, structural engineers are integral to constructing large and small apartment buildings. The safety of high-rise offices, which house workers, in cities worldwide every day, and the soundness of…
Background Aegis Systems Limited, a spectrum engineering consultancy founded in 1988, studies the radio spectrum’s behaviour: how radio waves act and interact. Following a trial run of several software packages, Aegis used Mathsoft’s calculation management software Mathcad (now PTC Mathcad) in conjunction with Fortran and…
ANDRITZ HYDRO is a global supplier of electromechanical systems and services (“from water-to-wire”) for hydropower plants and one of the leaders in the world market for hydraulic power generation. Initiatives Implement a robust engineering calculation tool with advanced functions Create accurate and precise calculations required…
In this blog, I will derive functions for the shear, moment, slope, and deflection for a uniformly loaded simply supported beam, starting only with the loading condition and using integration. The process will then be repeated for a triangular loading. When integrating, Mathcad does not…
Engineers tend to be creatures of habit, and many love sticking to the 13-year-old Mathcad 15 software they first encountered at university. It takes a lot of self-convincing to start using new, updated software. However, once they finally master it, they’ll use it until it’s…