Category Archives: Caminos my dear

Always a lot of concrete

Posted on May 31, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Around 410 Spanish credits (not ECTS) and many, many years, today I received my last class in the School. Civil engineer Álvaro Vázquez Herrero from Exconsa Ltd. talk us about foundations, project management and the life. Of course, today I … Continue reading →

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Heroes

Posted on May 24, 2008 by 曹 tsao

A day like this 125 years ago, the Brooklyn Bridge at NY was opened to the traffic. photo: Brooklyn Bridge, 1896. By Geo. P. Hall & son The history of this suspension bridge is the history of the family Roebling: … Continue reading →

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FEM-CAD interoperatibility: Salome

Posted on May 14, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Thanks to… errr… Pensamiento I discovered a very interesting tool based in OpenCascade. This program is called Salome, and it provides a framework to build a pre- and post-processor for numerical analysis. The screenshots are very impressive: The list of … Continue reading →

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Resistance is futile ;-)

Posted on May 13, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Today I pre-registered in the Spanish Civil Engineers College. It is a step that usually we take when we are in the latest year of the degree. It has some advantages for students, but, it’s more important, it is an … Continue reading →

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Time is the judge…

Posted on May 5, 2008 by 曹 tsao

…and I suppose the time will certify that the last saturday has dead the last decent president of Spanish democracy until today. In memorian, civil engineer Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo (1926-2008).

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How to do NOT end a street

Posted on April 20, 2008 by 曹 tsao

It seems the designer of the street where EmilioJ lives doesn’t know the cul-de-sac. Even if you doesn’t like the traditional solution you have new styles [ISon21,ES].

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It was not a madness

Posted on April 13, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Last year my friends Marta, Raquel and me did a work about the lighthouses system of the Laxe, and Corme. After the field visits, the main work were to show some proposals to remodel the lighthouses and give them new … Continue reading →

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The man and the shell

Posted on April 8, 2008 by 曹 tsao

I’m enjoying a lot at this time reading the book “Eduardo Torroja, Engineer” (Ed. Pronaos, 1999, dual Spanish-English) by José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez and José Ramón Navarro Vera. It’s a very complete book about one of the greatest civil engineers … Continue reading →

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e-(Blaise)Pascal

Posted on April 6, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Mike West (Cowboy Programming) released an interesting, two-part article about simulating fluids (visual simulation, not mechanical simulation): Practical Fluid Dynamics. The article was published in Game Developer Magazine (March and April 2007). Via Hackszine.

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The straight way

Posted on March 17, 2008 by 曹 tsao

As I had arrived to Segovia at night I missed great part of the Castilian landscape. Back to Galicia by car, I could appreciate its plainness and I could imagine the field of gold it becames in Summer. (yes, this … Continue reading →

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Rescue the princess

Posted on March 17, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Castilian towns are different than Galician ones (concentrated vs. scattered land occupancy). I could prove it along my route, and I could see it in situ when I arrived to Segovia. Segovia is well-known because it has one of the … Continue reading →

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Building territory

Posted on March 17, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Last weekend I went to Segovia to visit my friends Belen, Quico and their little children Carlitos and Julia. That was a fast, intense travel. I got the Talgo train at La Coruña the Friday morning. The Talgo is one … Continue reading →

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I’m an engineer, you’re a moron

Posted on March 14, 2008 by 曹 tsao

We beared a hard storm this week in the North of Spain. As result of it, a 10 m. wave sweeped away La Coruña’s promenade and destroyed part of it. Today I read an interview to Macario Fernández-Alonso, the actual … Continue reading →

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Locas posesas

Posted on March 6, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Related to the works in which I hardcode, I learnt about new (for me) technique to build concrete framework. Professor Fernando Martínez Abella showed us the post-tensioned slabs (losas postesas, in Spanish). This technique moves the post-tensioning from 1D (beams) … Continue reading →

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Real programmers 1 – Real engineers 10

Posted on March 6, 2008 by 曹 tsao

I have been very busy the last month. I made some tests and, the last week I had to finish some works. The most important of them consisted in designing and checking a reinforced concrete aqueduct. Of course, we were … Continue reading →

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Galicia non se vende

Posted on February 13, 2008 by 曹 tsao

O vindeiro domingo día 17 de febreiro terá lugar unha manifestación a prol da construcción sostible do territorio, e en contra das actuais agresións que está a sufrir Galicia especialmente no tocante ó urbanismo e a protección do litoral. A … Continue reading →

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Reinforced bones

Posted on February 5, 2008 by 曹 tsao

These weeks we can go in the city of La Coruña to a very interesting exhibition about Miguel Fisac, one of the greatest Spanish Architects in the XX Century. Fisac was know because his reinforced, prefabricated beams in buildings with … Continue reading →

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Beyond Civil Engineering

Posted on January 28, 2008 by 曹 tsao

Via Ingeniería en la Red, I discovered a great collection of books online (in Spanish) about technical, historical, human aspects of Civil Engineering. These books are published by the ESTEYCO Foundation. ESTEYCO is  Javier Rui-Wamba‘s consulting, one of the greatest … Continue reading →

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Thunder (very long distance) road

Posted on January 4, 2008 by 曹 tsao

It was by coincidence. Today I had a nice dinner with my friends of the Civil Engineers School Raquel, Olga, the two Silvias, and Nacho (Silvia’s boyfriend) who is an Industrial Engineer. We didn’t meet all at the same time … Continue reading →

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The real engineering

Posted on December 31, 2007 by 曹 tsao

“In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different” Larry McVoy I read this phrase time after time, because it was part of signature of JJ Quintela’s e-mails in GPUL mailing lists. Because it, maybe … Continue reading →

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