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		<title>Spaghetti Bridge World Record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The video of spaghetti bridge world record test is below. The bridge weighed 0.982 kg and held 443.58 kg before failing spectacularly. This is an amazing strength-to-weight ratio of almost 452 and beat the previous world record by 92 kg. It was built by two Hungarian students, Aliz Totivan and Norbert Pozsonyi and tested at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of units</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some quite serious sites that point out the importance of units in engineering calculations, but a less serious result of an error is the guy who got the wrong slipper! (244 hits) See the news report here (244 hits).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2011/10/the-importance-of-units/</link>
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		<title>Nonlinear beam behaviour example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This shows the deflection and bending moment history of a propped cantilever loaded with a point load at mid-span. The beam has a plastic moment capacity of 100 kNm and a shape factor of 1.12. A strain hardening modulus of 2% of the modulus of elasticity is used. The model is based on that given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting properties from CMFCPropertyGridProperty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while&#8230;but this is a good one &#8211; if it is what you need! In Visual C++, the MFC Feature Pack gives the property grid control, but one of the questions regularly asked (see stackoverflow.com) is how to return properties once changes by the user. Part of the problem is the COLEVariant is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2011/09/getting-properties-from-cmfcpropertygridproperty/</link>
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		<title>TLCD Video Analysis using Matlab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To measure the liquid heights in a Tuned Liquid Column Damper, either very expensive wave bob metres are needed, or the researcher can go through video image frame by frame estimating the height of the liquid columns from a scale attached to the TLCD. To avoid this laborious task, and to increase the number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2011/02/tlcd-video-analysis-using-matlab/</link>
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		<title>Build a 15-storey Hotel in 6 days? No Problem!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well worth a look for the prefabrication and impeccable logistical planning evident from the video. But it&#8217;s not that new&#8230;the Empire State Building took 18 months in total!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2011/02/build-a-15-storey-hotel-in-6-days-no-problem/</link>
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		<title>Optimization: Himmelblau&#8217;s Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across Himmelblau&#8217;s function (226 hits) for testing optimization routines. It has four local minima and one maxima so it provides a good test: (226 hits) I&#8217;m pleased to say my implementation of the Nelder-Meade Simplex Algorithm (on my C++ page here (240 hits)) was able to optimize it for each minima (depending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2010/08/optimization-himmelblaus-function/</link>
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		<title>Research Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DIT has released details of its new scholarship programme, the DIT Fiosraigh Scholarship Programme 2010 (for more details see here (197 hits)). Of particular interest to recent graduates is the Dean of Graduate Students Award. This will support the successful candidate with €16k+fees+€2k expenses per year, for up to 4 years. A minimum degree of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2010/07/research-opportunities/</link>
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		<title>Bridge Collapses as Motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes its useful to re-motivate ourselves. A sobering TIME magazine photo-essay reminds us why we research and try to continually improve the design process: The Worst Bridge Collapses in the Past 100 Years (453 hits) Another collection is here: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-seven-quaking-bridges-collapsed-costing-lives (582 hits)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.colincaprani.com/wordpress/2010/06/bridge-collapses-as-motivation/</link>
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		<title>Webcast of 4-Span Bridge Earthquake Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Nevada at Reno (UNR) is carrying out a large-scale shake-table testing of a four-span bridge, at the UNR Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, on 15 June, 2010 at 10:00 Pacific Time, (18:00 UTC). In itself this is an incredible endevour, but the best thing is that they are webcasting the event live. For details [...]]]></description>
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