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Video of Assembly Process
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The Only Advice

• If you don't let a teacher know at what level you
  are by
• asking a question, or
• revealing your ignorance
• you will not learn or grow.
• You can't pretend for long, for you will
  eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance
  is often the first step in our education.
• Steven Covey - Seven Habits of Highly
  Effective People

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EML 3041

• Computational Methods
• SUMMER 2006
• 1030-1230 MWF CHE 217
• Friday class ENB 116 as noted
• Dr. Autar Kaw

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BRIDGEof LIONS (1927)
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Bascule Bridge THG
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Bascule Bridge THG
Hub
Trunnion
Girder
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Problem

• Trunnion Stuck in Hub
• Venetian Causeway Bridge

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Video of Assembly Process
Unplugged Version
VH1 Version
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Estimating Contraction
Change in diameter ?D by cooling it in liquid
nitrogen is given by

• D outer diameter of trunnion
• thermal expansion coefficient
• Ta ambient temperature,
• Tc boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen.

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Varying Thermal Expansion
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Estimating Contraction
Change in diameter ?D by cooling it in liquid
nitrogen is given by
D outer diameter ?(T) instantaneous
thermal expansion coefficient Ta ambient
temperature, Tc boiling temperature of
liquid nitrogen.
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Fig 1.1
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Nonlinear Equations
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Differentiation
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Simultaneous Linear Equations
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Regression
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Interpolation
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Integration
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Ordinary Differential Equations
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Let us begin

• Attendance
• Distractions
• Handouts
• Syllabus

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Conclusion