RE: BraNch CalCulaTion last word (really)

"Branch calculation" in my humble opinion is a very broad question and it came to my mind that:

1. Maybe the guy wants to know the forces and stresses on a particular branch.
2. Maybe he wants to know the flow in each of the branching pipes.
3. Maybe he wants to know the fluid pressure at that branch.
4. Maybe he wants to know the different governing standards/codes as reference in his computations.

It is very hard to answer that question.

Secondly, I firmly believe that our moderators like Mr. Wright didn't mean to offend the person when he answers querries.

Being a forum of different nationalities, we possess different cultures. In my own experience, some people

     are frank and straightforward while others are onion-skinned which are easily hurt even by the slightest constructive comment.

Let us move on guys....I have high regards to this educational forum.

Joshua G. Rizaga
Engineering Manager
VWC, Philippines

• ed engalan <edengalan@hblpipe.com> wrote:

> Well put, Mr Wright.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Wright
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:12 PM
> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [PipingDesign] BraNch CalCulaTion last word
> (really)
>
>
> I figured I'd wait to see if anyone actually
> provided "every thing u
> know about branch calculation." Since no one has, I
> presume the post
> really was pointless.
>
> Just so everyone knows, I'm going to start rejecting
> questions like
> that when they get to me for moderating, but I am
> going to enclose a
> note explaining why **if** I think the explanation
> will do some good,
> perhaps such things as using 'u' for the second
> person pronoun and
> mixing lower and upper case like script weenies and
> spammers. I may
> even get a little blunt about it, but that's life.
>
> Which brings up my third point. Engineering is not
> all sweetness and
> light. Engineers deal with life as it is, not the
> way it appears on a
> computer monitor, and some days you'll be the
> windshield and some days
> you'll be the bug. It took me a while to realize
> that when I was a
> newbie and maybe a little lecture for the benefit of
> current newbies
> might help.
>
> If you stay in this business long enough you'll run
> into plenty of
> customers, colleagues, managers, competitors and
> possibly lawyers who
> will subject you to some pretty abusive situations.
> You'll be fired,
> outsourced, blamed, ignored, disagreed with,
> misunderstood and taken
> advantage of, and you better learn to deal with it.
> If you don't learn
> from it and use the experience for the next job,
> you'll be no use to
> yourself or anyone else. If you respond to criticism
> by running off to
> your room and weeping bitterly, you learn nothing
> except how to blame
> others instead of stand on your own two feet.
>
> Mostly criticism won't be personal, just business,
> and in some cases
> you'll have it coming. Some of the real sweethearts
> you run into will
> turn out to be complete åss-holes and some of the
> åss-holes you run
> into will be pretty nice people. To make it worse,
> you're going to have
> to admit to some really stupid blunders, and let
> unjustified criticism
> roll off your back, because you won't always be
> right and you won't
> always be able to do anything about it if you are.
> And sometimes
> criticism **will** be personal and mean. Just like
> the rest of life.
>
> I've been fired, more or less, from 3 direct jobs,
> laid off from a
> couple of others, and roundly beaten about the head
> and shoulders on
> many occasions. I'm inclined to dwell on things for
> a while afterwards,
> which used to seem like a personal problem, but
> there's value in
> studying disasters. You'll find you can learn from
> sorting out hurt
> feelings, poor communications, unmet expectations,
> personal chemistry,
> ignorance and sh¡t-headedness and usually find
> something instructive.
> You'll always learn something about the people
> around you and you
> should learn something about yourself. Just possibly
> you'll gain some
> experience to fall back on next time it happens. If
> you're in luck
> you'll learn something about self-reliance, which is
> the single
> indispensable quality of a professional, and the
> reason I nag
> constantly about doing your own homework.
>
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an
> elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words
> of Gen.
> .......................................| John
> Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
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