#civilengineering — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #civilengineering, aggregated by home.social.
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Mycelium from the Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) fungus is used to break down hard-to-recycle engineered wood waste, transforming it into a sustainable, fire-resistant, and thermally insulating bio-composite material.
#Bioengineering #MaterialsScience, #EnvironmentalScience #Mycology #CivilEngineering
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Mycelium from the Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) fungus is used to break down hard-to-recycle engineered wood waste, transforming it into a sustainable, fire-resistant, and thermally insulating bio-composite material.
#Bioengineering #MaterialsScience, #EnvironmentalScience #Mycology #CivilEngineering
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Mycelium from the Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) fungus is used to break down hard-to-recycle engineered wood waste, transforming it into a sustainable, fire-resistant, and thermally insulating bio-composite material.
#Bioengineering #MaterialsScience, #EnvironmentalScience #Mycology #CivilEngineering
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/beng05192601.html -
Mycelium from the Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) fungus is used to break down hard-to-recycle engineered wood waste, transforming it into a sustainable, fire-resistant, and thermally insulating bio-composite material.
#Bioengineering #MaterialsScience, #EnvironmentalScience #Mycology #CivilEngineering
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Mycelium from the Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) fungus is used to break down hard-to-recycle engineered wood waste, transforming it into a sustainable, fire-resistant, and thermally insulating bio-composite material.
#Bioengineering #MaterialsScience, #EnvironmentalScience #Mycology #CivilEngineering
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The headline showing #road #diversion distance in kilometres isn't incorrect - its exactly how #CivilEngineering in #UK is carried out today - all work is done in #metric and only converted back to miles / yards for the purposes of roadsigns and maps!
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The headline showing #road #diversion distance in kilometres isn't incorrect - its exactly how #CivilEngineering in #UK is carried out today - all work is done in #metric and only converted back to miles / yards for the purposes of roadsigns and maps!
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The headline showing #road #diversion distance in kilometres isn't incorrect - its exactly how #CivilEngineering in #UK is carried out today - all work is done in #metric and only converted back to miles / yards for the purposes of roadsigns and maps!
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The headline showing #road #diversion distance in kilometres isn't incorrect - its exactly how #CivilEngineering in #UK is carried out today - all work is done in #metric and only converted back to miles / yards for the purposes of roadsigns and maps!
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The headline showing #road #diversion distance in kilometres isn't incorrect - its exactly how #CivilEngineering in #UK is carried out today - all work is done in #metric and only converted back to miles / yards for the purposes of roadsigns and maps!
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The Best of FYFD 2024
Welcome to another year and another look back at FYFD’s most popular posts. (You can find previous editions, too, for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014. Whew, that’s a lot!) Here are some of 2024’s most popular topics:
- The Taum Sauk Dam Failure and Its Legacy
- Stretching Ant Rafts
- Gigapixel Supernova
- Feynman’s Sprinkler Solved
- Calming the Waves
- “Dew Point” Deposits Droplets
- Drying Unaffected by Humidity
- Trapped in a Taylor Column
- Exciting a Flame in a Trough
- Remembering Rivers Past
- A Comet’s Tail
- Light Pillars
- Liquid Metal Printing
- The Miscible Faraday Instability
- A Triangular Prominence
This year’s topics are a good mix: fundamental research, civil engineering applications, geophysics, astrophysics, art, and one good old-fashioned brain teaser. Interested in what 2025 will hold? There are lots of ways to follow along so that you don’t miss a post.
And if you enjoy FYFD, please remember that it’s a reader-supported website. I don’t run ads, and it’s been years since my last sponsored post. You can help support the site by becoming a patron, buying some merch, or simply by sharing on social media. And if you find yourself struggling to remember to check the website, remember you can get FYFD in your inbox every two weeks with our newsletter. Happy New Year!
(Image credits: dam – Practical Engineering, ants – C. Chen et al., supernova – NOIRLab, sprinkler – K. Wang et al., wave tank – L-P. Euvé et al., “Dew Point” – L. Clark, paint – M. Huisman et al., iceberg – D. Fox, flame trough – S. Mould, sign – B. Willen, comet – S. Li, light pillars – N. Liao, chair – MIT News, Faraday instability – G. Louis et al., prominence – A. Vanoni)
#admin #ants #astrophysics #civilEngineering #comet #damFailure #drying #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #FYFD #instability #physics #plasma #rivers #rotatingFlow #science #selfExcitedOscillation #TaylorColumn #waveInterference
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https://www.cyclingeu.com/871051/route-41-hs2-starts-work-on-new-fosse-way-cycle-bridge-shorts/ Route 41: HS2 starts work on new Fosse Way cycle bridge #shorts #Bicycling #BicyclingUK #BicyclingUnitedKingdom #Biking #BikingUK #BikingUnitedKingdom #bridge #CivilEngineering #construction #cycle #CycleBridge #Cycling #CyclingGloucesterUnitedKingdom #CyclingUk #CyclingUnitedKingdom #engineering #HighSpeedRail #HighSpeedRailway #HS2 #infrastructure #Project #rail #railways #train #tunnelling #UK #UnitedKingdom
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🔬 Present your research
🌍 Collaborate with global experts
📄 Publish and share your insights📍 Berlin
📅 September 14–15, 2026🔗 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/
🎟 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/registration#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#SmartCities #UrbanInfrastructure #DigitalTransformation
#SustainableCities #UrbanPlanning #CivilEngineering
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #HumboldtUniversity
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract -
🔬 Present your research
🌍 Collaborate with global experts
📄 Publish and share your insights📍 Berlin
📅 September 14–15, 2026🔗 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/
🎟 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/registration#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#SmartCities #UrbanInfrastructure #DigitalTransformation
#SustainableCities #UrbanPlanning #CivilEngineering
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #HumboldtUniversity
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract -
🔬 Present your research
🌍 Collaborate with global experts
📄 Publish and share your insights📍 Berlin
📅 September 14–15, 2026🔗 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/
🎟 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/registration#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#SmartCities #UrbanInfrastructure #DigitalTransformation
#SustainableCities #UrbanPlanning #CivilEngineering
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #HumboldtUniversity
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract -
🔬 Present your research
🌍 Collaborate with global experts
📄 Publish and share your insights📍 Berlin
📅 September 14–15, 2026🔗 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/
🎟 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/registration#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#SmartCities #UrbanInfrastructure #DigitalTransformation
#SustainableCities #UrbanPlanning #CivilEngineering
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #HumboldtUniversity
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract -
Interpretable Physics-Informed Graph Neural Networks For Flood Forecasting
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https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13484 <-- shared paper
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https://github.com/MehdiTaghizadehUVa/modulus/tree/main/examples/weather/flood_modeling/hydrographnet <-- shared GitHub repository
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #FloodForecasting #GraphNeuralNetworks #PhysicsInformedAI #Hydrology #ClimateResilience #ScientificMachineLearning #CivilEngineering #HydroGraphNet #PhyiscsNeMo #hydrology #water #flood #flooding #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climatechange #model #modeling #machinelearning #AI #extremeweather #prediction #forecasting #planning #humanimpacts #loss #lossoflife #publicsafety #cost #economics #infrastructure #risk #hazard #disaster #mitigation #preparedness #naturaldisaster #HydroGraphNet #floodforecasting #dynamics #remotesensing #earthobservation -
Michel Bierlaire, a world-renowned expert who always makes time for his students, isn’t just “Mr. Transport” – he’s also the winner of the 2025 best teacher award for the civil engineering Section.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-best-way-to-learn-something-is-to-teach-it/
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"Quantum-based gravity sensors promise a sensitive and robust way to locate buried objects, and they’ve recently taken their first steps out of the laboratory"
https://physicsworld.com/a/how-civil-engineering-is-bringing-quantum-physics-down-to-earth/
#Engineering #Surveys #Ground #CivilEngineering #Quantum #Interferometry
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"Quantum-based gravity sensors promise a sensitive and robust way to locate buried objects, and they’ve recently taken their first steps out of the laboratory"
https://physicsworld.com/a/how-civil-engineering-is-bringing-quantum-physics-down-to-earth/
#Engineering #Surveys #Ground #CivilEngineering #Quantum #Interferometry
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"Quantum-based gravity sensors promise a sensitive and robust way to locate buried objects, and they’ve recently taken their first steps out of the laboratory"
https://physicsworld.com/a/how-civil-engineering-is-bringing-quantum-physics-down-to-earth/
#Engineering #Surveys #Ground #CivilEngineering #Quantum #Interferometry
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"Quantum-based gravity sensors promise a sensitive and robust way to locate buried objects, and they’ve recently taken their first steps out of the laboratory"
https://physicsworld.com/a/how-civil-engineering-is-bringing-quantum-physics-down-to-earth/
#Engineering #Surveys #Ground #CivilEngineering #Quantum #Interferometry
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For #FlashbackFriday, some of the most fun I ever had writing for #Wikipedia: A family saga of #botany, #exploration, #MapMaking, and #CivilEngineering; of one brother who was an engineer for the #UnionArmy and one who betrayed Union plans to the #Confederacy; of great infrastructure projects. You can't make this stuff up.
I give you William Rich Hutton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rich_Hutton
Nathaniel Henry Hutton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Henry_Hutton
James D. Hutton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Hutton1/
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/38608/ Ranking: ETH Zurich still the world’s best university in Earth Sciences #architecture #Chemistry #CivilEngineering #ComputerAndInformationTechnology #DARCH #DBAUG #DCHAB #DEAPS #DINFK #DITET #DMATH #DMATL #DMAVT #DPHYS #DUSYS #EarthSciences #ElectricalEngineering #EnvironmentalSciences #GeologicalInstitute #geology #InstituteOfGeophysics #MaterialsScience #Mathematics #MechanicalEngineering #news #Physics #statistics #Zürich
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White roofs should be mandatory in all new buildings to combat global warming.
#whiteroofs #whitecolor #buildings #passivecooling #albedo #solarradiation #sunlightreflection #sunlight #globalwarming #climatechange #greenhouseeffect #civilengineering -
This is why #Engineers use #TransitionCurves in the form of #CornuSpirals or #Clothoids to connect from the straight segment onto a circular arc. It has the property that it starts with zero #curvature at the beginning and then the curvature increases linearly with distance travelled along the curve. At the appropriate curvature, it is connected to a circular arc with the same curvature.
#MyWork #WxMaxima #CivilEngineering #HighwayEngineering #CCBYSA
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My friend @Dicksondavid in #PortHarcourt #Nigeria is #LookingForWork - he has worked before in #foodservice and has skills as a #barber and interest in #CivilEngineering / #construction
If anyone from the area knows of opportunities (including assistance for interview travel expenses) and/or can advise how a young man in this can get genuine work (he has had previous issues with unpaid wages and paying for travel only to find there are 0 vacancies) it will be much appreciated..
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https://bsky.app/profile/lut.fi/post/3mlakdbfoyc2f #LUTyliopisto #yliopisto The Erkki Paasikivi Foundation has made a 400,000-euro donation to our civil engineering programme. 🚀
A sincere thank you for this generous contribution! 💚
➔ Read how the funding will be utilised: https://www.lut.fi/en/news/significant-donation-civil-engineering-research-and-education#unilut #Lahti #civilengineering #research #education @lahti.fi
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https://bsky.app/profile/lut.fi/post/3mlakdbfoyc2f #LUTyliopisto #yliopisto The Erkki Paasikivi Foundation has made a 400,000-euro donation to our civil engineering programme. 🚀
A sincere thank you for this generous contribution! 💚
➔ Read how the funding will be utilised: https://www.lut.fi/en/news/significant-donation-civil-engineering-research-and-education#unilut #Lahti #civilengineering #research #education @lahti.fi
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https://bsky.app/profile/lut.fi/post/3mlakdbfoyc2f #LUTyliopisto #yliopisto The Erkki Paasikivi Foundation has made a 400,000-euro donation to our civil engineering programme. 🚀
A sincere thank you for this generous contribution! 💚
➔ Read how the funding will be utilised: https://www.lut.fi/en/news/significant-donation-civil-engineering-research-and-education#unilut #Lahti #civilengineering #research #education @lahti.fi
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Geomorphometry - A Brief Guide
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2481(08)00001-9 <-- shared paper
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https://geomorphometry.org/ <-- International Society for Geomorphometry home page
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #elevation #remotesensing #data #digital #civilengineering #science #visualization #geometry #military #algorithms #society #visualisation #model #modeling #geomorphology #landcover #geomorphometry #quantitative #landsurface #analysis #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #terrainanalysis #physicalgeography #geography #geology #topography #landforms #watersheds #surfacemodel #algorithms #interpretation #gischat #tutorial #guide #overview #learning -
AdamSomething has taken a break from #civilengineering and decided to *checks notes* talk about #statecraft and #socioeconomics in the #US? Ah ghee whiz.
That a #European shows his autistic super power by just lining up one #political problem after another and mowing them down in the same breath gives me hope for the future.
But is #Europe really the #economic centre of the world in the future? I'm a bit more uncertain of that.
Why #Trump's #Tariffs Are Doomed To Fail
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"On Apr 27, the director of reclamation at Surbana Jurong’s coastal engineering team was conferred the Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Dutch royalty, making him among 3,500 recipients globally to receive the honour."
#Singapore #Netherlands #Knighthood #Engineers #Engineering #Polders #CivilEngineering
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RT @CopernicusLand: 📣 Don’t miss our 5th & final #EGMS webinar, on urban areas and infrastructure!
Learn how EGMS can facilitate #UrbanPlanning & #CivilEngineering applications and risk management
📅Wednesday 7 June 2023
⏰11:00 - 12:00 CEST
💻OnlineRegister now👇
https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/events/european-ground-motion-service-webinar-series-2023🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1661013085535240192
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RT @CopernicusLand: 📣 Don’t miss our 5th & final #EGMS webinar, on urban areas and infrastructure!
Learn how EGMS can facilitate #UrbanPlanning & #CivilEngineering applications and risk management
📅Wednesday 7 June 2023
⏰11:00 - 12:00 CEST
💻OnlineRegister now👇
https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/events/european-ground-motion-service-webinar-series-2023🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1661013085535240192
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RT @CopernicusLand: 📣 Don’t miss our 5th & final #EGMS webinar, on urban areas and infrastructure!
Learn how EGMS can facilitate #UrbanPlanning & #CivilEngineering applications and risk management
📅Wednesday 7 June 2023
⏰11:00 - 12:00 CEST
💻OnlineRegister now👇
https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/events/european-ground-motion-service-webinar-series-2023🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUEnvironment/status/1661013085535240192
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🌍 Building Resilient Cities for Tomorrow
At ISECEE2026 – 4th International Summit on Earth Science, Civil & Environmental Engineering, global experts, researchers, and industry leaders will come together to discuss.
📍 Berlin, Germany
📅 September 14–15, 2026🔗 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/
📝 https://civil.spectrumconferences.com/registration
#CivilEngineering #Sustainability #ClimateAction #EarthScience #EnvironmentalEngineering #SmartCities #ISECEE2026
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Hi, I'm Steven! new #introduction
I am a research scientist and lecturer at the #UniversityOfWashington #Seattle in #Hydrology #CivilEngineering #EnvironmentalEngineering .
My research involves #RemoteSensing of #snow, and I am interested in #AppliedScience for #ClimateAdaptations , #NaturalHazards , #WaterResources , #teaching and #OpenSourceSoftware .
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Just uploaded a small book as open source: “Doing Engineering Calculations”. https://osf.io/qv6bn. Comments welcome. #CivilEngineering #EnvironmentalEngineering #EngineeringCalculations
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Hi, I'm Steven! #introduction I'm a #PhdStudent at the #UniversityOfWashington #Seattle in #Hydrology #CivilEngineering #EnvironmentalEngineering . My work has been focused on developing #RemoteSensing methods (visible through #infrared ) for observing #snow and surface temperatures in mountain headwaters. I am also #OpenToWork for opportunities starting mid-2023! I'm interested in remote sensing #AppliedScience for #ClimateAdaptations , #NaturalHazards , #WaterResources , and also #teaching!
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Dams Fill Reservoirs With Sediment
Dams are critical pieces of infrastructure, but, as Grady shows in this Practical Engineering video, they are destined to be temporary. The reason is that they naturally fill with sediment over time. Rivers carry a combination of water and sediment; the latter is critical to healthy shorelines and stable ecology. But while sediment gets carried along by a fast-flowing river, slower flow rates allow sediment to fall out of suspension, as demonstrated in Grady’s tabletop flume. As his river transitions to a deeper, slower-flowing reservoir, sand falls out of the flow, building up colorful strata. The sand and water even create dynamic feedback loops, as seen with the dunes that form in his timelapse and march toward the dam.
Any long-term plan for a dam has to deal with this inevitable build-up of sediment, and, unfortunately, it’s not a simple or cheap problem to address, as discussed in the video. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)
#civilEngineering #dams #engineering #fluidDynamics #physics #science #sedimentTransport #sedimentation
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Damping a Skyscraper
Wind forces on a skyscraper can set it swaying, so engineers design dampers to stop the motion and keep users comfortable. Some buildings use suspended solid mass dampers to counter a building’s motion, but others take a liquid approach. Whether by shifting water through specially shaped chambers or by sloshing it back and forth in a tank, a tuned liquid damper system can quickly bring a building back to rest. In this Practical Engineering video, Grady discusses the challenges of designing these systems and demonstrates how they work with a cool tabletop version. As a reminder, sloshing also helps in water-bottle flipping and stopping a bouncing ball. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)
#civilEngineering #damping #fluidDynamics #physics #science #sloshDynamics #sloshing
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Connecting Canals
Before the rise of railroads, canals provided critical commercial shipping infrastructure for many locations worldwide. But connecting canals at different elevations required locks–sometimes a whole series of them–as in the case of Scotland’s Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal. In the canals’ heyday, navigating the 11 locks between them took the better part of a day–one of many reasons that canals fell out of use over time.
When Scotland decided to reconnect the canals in the 1990s, they picked a very different solution for this elevation challenge: the Falkirk Wheel. Grady walks us through the clever engineering of this impressive piece of infrastructure in this Practical Engineering video. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)
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Airports could stop wasting land by building underground passenger terminals, by encouraging the use of VTOL aircraft, and by implementing assisted take-off technologies for reducing runway length.
#airports #aviation #landuse #urbanplanning #runways #vtol #assistedtakeoff #catobar #architecture #civilengineering #civilaviation #aircraft -
Hacking When It Counts: DIY Prosthetics and the Prison Camp Lathe https://hackaday.com/2025/07/14/hacking-when-it-counts-diy-prosthetics-and-the-prison-camp-lathe/ #hackingwhenitcounts #socialengineering #civilengineering #machinetools #Engineering #prosthetic #Featured #Interest #History #prison #lathe #limb #wwii #POW
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Hacking When It Counts: DIY Prosthetics and the Prison Camp Lathe - There are a lot of benefits to writing for Hackaday, but hands down one of the bes... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/14/hacking-when-it-counts-diy-prosthetics-and-the-prison-camp-lathe/ #hackingwhenitcounts #socialengineering #civilengineering #machinetools #engineering #prosthetic #featured #interest #history #prison #lathe #limb #wwii #pow
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Logan Ober has updated his ElevatorDatabase.com. From the LinkedIn announcement: “Version 2.5.0 is live and it’s the biggest visual refresh yet. Everything finally looks and feels like one system with the same clean dark and light theme across the homepage, California search, and Release Notes.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/20/logan-ober-updates-elevator-database/
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BBC News: New road bridge over River Clyde opens to traffic
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🌍 What is Seismic Engineering?
Did you know buildings can be designed to dance with earthquakes instead of collapsing?
Seismic Engineering is the science that helps protect structures and save lives during seismic events.👉 Discover the full story here: https://www.engineersheaven.org/forum/topic/58
#SeismicEngineering #EarthquakeEngineering #DisasterPrevention #CivilEngineering #StructuralDesign #EngineeringInnovation #EngineersHeaven #STEMeducation #FutureOfEngineering
