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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 2284" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>We've now had a series of structures fall over, accompanying armchair quarterbacking, and too many erroneous things in "print." I'd like to encourage people to get serious about learning the basics of structural mechanics.</p><p></p><p>Your local community college will have "Statics" as a 2000-level engineering core class (i.e. part of the foundation for upper division engineering classes). Statics will teach you how to calculate the various forces at play in structures, like rigging, and remove a fair amount of the voodoo mystery of why structures are constructed the way they are. It won't make you a rigger, or get into the specific design of portable structures, but it will remove a lot of the mystery, and give you the proper intuition about how forces operate. You'll be able to calculate, rather than relying on "black magic" guidelines.</p><p></p><p>Your textbook will be a standard like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mechanics-Russell-C-Hibbeler/dp/0136077900/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313511322&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Hibbler</a>.</p><p></p><p>You will need high school algebra, trigonometry, and the barest amount of calculus (to calculate moments). You will need to understand vectors and vector notation. Statics has a <em>lot</em> of homework, but otherwise it is the easiest of the engineering core courses, and requires almost no advanced mathematics. Even if you never took calculus, the textbooks provide the formulae for moment calculations of common shapes that you can simply plug numbers into.</p><p></p><p>Take it pass/fail, sneak into the back row of the lecture hall, or find an online course. Puzzle over the homework problems with the budding engineering students. </p><p></p><p>It should be mandatory, along with an electrical power distribution class, for those in any way affiliated with live event production.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 2284, member: 430"] We've now had a series of structures fall over, accompanying armchair quarterbacking, and too many erroneous things in "print." I'd like to encourage people to get serious about learning the basics of structural mechanics. Your local community college will have "Statics" as a 2000-level engineering core class (i.e. part of the foundation for upper division engineering classes). Statics will teach you how to calculate the various forces at play in structures, like rigging, and remove a fair amount of the voodoo mystery of why structures are constructed the way they are. It won't make you a rigger, or get into the specific design of portable structures, but it will remove a lot of the mystery, and give you the proper intuition about how forces operate. You'll be able to calculate, rather than relying on "black magic" guidelines. Your textbook will be a standard like [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mechanics-Russell-C-Hibbeler/dp/0136077900/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313511322&sr=8-1"]Hibbler[/URL]. You will need high school algebra, trigonometry, and the barest amount of calculus (to calculate moments). You will need to understand vectors and vector notation. Statics has a [I]lot[/I] of homework, but otherwise it is the easiest of the engineering core courses, and requires almost no advanced mathematics. Even if you never took calculus, the textbooks provide the formulae for moment calculations of common shapes that you can simply plug numbers into. Take it pass/fail, sneak into the back row of the lecture hall, or find an online course. Puzzle over the homework problems with the budding engineering students. It should be mandatory, along with an electrical power distribution class, for those in any way affiliated with live event production. [/QUOTE]
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