that's kinda what I told the physics dept when they asked me if I wanted to switch majors. I said "physics is like the philosophy of engineering". Asking questions that have no answer.
My field was nonlinear dynamics. We used to model the wavefront progression of the electrical impulses which caused the heart muscles to contract. The objective was to identify possible causes for arritmia. I ended up using a similar model to study the propagation of stress failure in non-cristaline solids.
Good.
did you apply this to an inverted T-wave ekgs in endurance athletes?
C'mon, you have to love string theory. Everything made of vibrating strings (fits in with my musical connectedness theory) and up to 12 dimensions we can't see (fits into my Why I Crash theory)
the most basic and UNTAUGHT engineering principal (if I'm talking to you, then you know who you are)
No, mostly to chagas patients and smoking-induced arrhythmia ones, via 24-hour holter records. I still remember how learning the very first sip from a cigarette you take in the morning induces a lateral arrhythmia (i.e. the left side of your heart starts going out of phase with respect to right side) made me cringe back in the day.
That was almost 15 years ago. In order to process the ever increasing amount of data we were gathering, I had to dive deep into parallel computing, and that led me to be a very competent UNIX systems administrator.
Have you seen the vastly improved math math physics-y sciency stuff behind boost hubs?
Fun fact: as many guys around here, I designed and built a dirt jumper frame, together with a friend who studied industrial design. We wanted to start on the safe (and cheap) side, which basically meant we got a too heavy, too solid frame. Riding it was basically akin to trying to manual a M1 Abrams tank.
don't worry, that gap will be closing soon enough.Have you seen the vastly improved math math physics-y sciency stuff behind boost hubs?
Overboard boost?don't worry, that gap will be closing soon enough.
https://www.bikerumor.com/2017/09/25/ib17-wild-mandaric-standard-21-5-concept-runs-the-cassette-outside-the-frame/
outboard. if it was carbon, I would understand it better
That's the "safety factor" effect. One of the most frustrating things about mechanical engineering was when they introduced the "safety factor". It works like this: do tons and tons of tedious calculations, finite element analysis, you name it. Come up with your lightest, strongest design......then...for safety... because all your calculations are math equations based on assumptions.....multiply everything by a safety factor of 2-3!!!
Yeah, I was talking about how the industry behaves in general
oh fuck. Yes you did. I was just on skype with a factory that asked about boost plus. I said WTF is that. The said either 150 or 157.....well, that's within normal tolerance, right??
i'm surprised nobody got this till now. Oval seat tube. Duh. No rotation.
seriously, we don't WANT it to rotate. We don' need rotational freedom in a seat tube/post. Somebody fix this with a new standard.
You mean this thing? http://www.eightpins.at/en/index-en/
Or you just can buy the right seatpost clamp: https://www.vecnum.com/en/products/tooloc/
Well, not really. It's still round. I want to ditch the round, lets redo the whole damn thing. Round seatposts make no sense. And to stay on topic, out of recycled carbon waste of broken handlebars from the ocean
See earlier in thread about manufacturability.
double it, then cut it in half
Octagon? Pfffft. Spline all the things.
Did you manage to misplace your reading glasses grampa?
PS I'm calling dibs on that idea.
Meh. I am multitasking with only one good typing hand.
sextagonal?
Icosahedron ball and socket
mechanical engineering is the art of performing precision guesswork based on unreliable information obtained from dubious sources
BUT, this is key.....Being absolutely certain that you are 100% correct, telling everybody you are, while being blind to fatal flaws. it's basic 101
How about a 10 spline threaded steerer? I dunno how that would even work.. #MakeThreadedSteerersGreatAgain
