{"id":1339,"date":"2021-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:20:05","slug":"singularity-films-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/singularity-films-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity Films Presents&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-30-Lesson11a-Singularity-pdf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-30-Lesson11a-Singularity-pdf.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1340\" width=\"412\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-30-Lesson11a-Singularity-pdf.png 823w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-30-Lesson11a-Singularity-pdf-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-30-Lesson11a-Singularity-pdf-768x712.png 768w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-30-Lesson11a-Singularity-pdf-624x579.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an engineering structures parody of the X Files from 1999 found in my class notes. April Fools&#8230; once every 20 years is about right for this engineering joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why is this related to structural engineering? Well, there is a shortcut method using so-called singularity functions to calculate the moment and shear in beams. Refer to any classical engineering textbook. As my initial undergraduate instructor in a structural analysis course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wolf-yeigh-a3475010\">Dr. Wolf Yeigh<\/a>, would say, <em>it&#8217;s a good tool to have in your pocket<\/em>. FYI, that was an intense course and professor, but one that I&#8217;m really lucky and glad to have taken. And yes, I made an A. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an engineering structures parody of the X Files from 1999 found in my class notes. April Fools&#8230; once every 20 years is about right for this engineering joke. So why is this related to structural engineering? Well, there is a shortcut method using so-called singularity functions to calculate the moment and shear in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}