Engineering 101: Rainfall Intensity
This morning while driving to work in a minor mist, I thought about and Twittered about posting a new blog entry here. I have finally found the time. Let us talk about the next 101 topic: Rainfall...
View ArticleReminders, Diversions, and a Request
Been a fun, but busy week. Mark and I both were on class duty this week and I managed to teach from both Chicago and Dallas. Add in AU prep, and it’s been a wild one. Here’s some random snippets to go...
View ArticleMissing Network Part List
During my many conversations with people at Autodesk University 2008, a few people indicated that during a LandXML import, the network part list gets lost in translation. I do recall losing the...
View ArticleEncore: Intro to ProPack Hydro
Don’t forget today’s (Monday, Dec 15th) EEcast is an encore presentation of the Intro to ProPack Hydro. Register at www.eng-eff.com/eecasts and join us at noon Eastern.
View ArticleH&H with Civil 3D: February 9th, 2009
If you spend anytime in C3D and then in Storm Sewers or HEC-RAS, you owe it to yourself to come check out Monday’s EECast where we release our Pro Pack Hydro into the wild. Register here, and check out...
View ArticleEngineering 101: Precipitation
A few months ago, I posted about the Rainfall Intensity and some of the information you will need to generate an intensity-duration-frequency curve. I want to provide a little more rainfall data,...
View ArticleEngineering 101: The FAA Equation – Time of Concentration
Let us continue the Engineering 101 series of blog entries. Over the past few months, we have seen few posts on some basic engineering tasks associated with the engineering study of hydrology. I...
View ArticleEngineering 101: Manning’s Formula
Someone once said that the study of Hydrology and Hydraulics is one part art, the rest part voodoo. Hydraulics is so much more an empirical study or relationship than pure voodoo. I am glad I am not...
View ArticlePipe Network Part Matching
Kevin Clark did a post earlier this year on “When a Pipe Network Structure isn’t a Pipe Network Structure”. Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis (SSA) uses the STM file format as the mechanism for...
View ArticleReturn from SSA
In the last post on Pipe Network Part Matching, we discussed what happens to the STM parts as they enter into the world of Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Sewer. For now let us say we completed the design...
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