#LRB Engineering

[lrbsuk]

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[cryptosexologist]

this post has taken so long i suspect it’ll feel entirely disconnected from the LRB which inspired it, good grief. anyways living up to my url again - the orientation ocd inspired essays have been getting way less hard on my anxiety to produce i think i’m getting better at my commitment to reasonableness and attempting to not reproduce structures of systemic oppression to enforce an artificial conservatism of things which i feel so protective of BECAUSE of those same structures of systemic oppression lmao. still not bothering to do a second draft or grammarify things properly though xmx

the desire to bring up how a decent chunk of “radical genderfuckery” in the queer space is at a philosophical level based more on countering the counterculture (due to internet-enabled perceivable narrative saturation & homogeneity of ‘regular’ queer identity) (which, like, the saturation is bc yer at the soup store, but the homogeneity IS actual a reasonable fucking problem to find in it dont get me wrong) and therefore is extremely predictable in how it fails to properly address the more basal systems of transmisogyny and homophobia and other such things - to the point of outright hindering some causes from a purely rhetorical POV (coughs in the general direction of feminist criticism of the foundations of manhood versus ‘oh but i’m undeniably part of the outgroup-to-men-as-engineered-by-Manhood while still being a man!’ individual arguments which like. true, but just specifying ‘CIS men!’ or ‘TME’ in cases of discussing the systemic privileges of patriarchy will fail to properly deconstruct the basii if manhood itself if we accept that men can be things other than cis ya know like -. god sorry fuck this is getting away from me. yes i’m mostly still just failing to internally digest bigender lesbian stuff with my own worldviews’ enzymes thats what this is turning into. to be clear i aint trying to invalidate anything besides my own analytical (or pragmatic capacity to just stop being analytical) skill, if i rip myself away from the rhetorical zeal buzzer i can mostly get it lmao. also yes even away from the buzzer i will still insist that peoples identities are informed by their philosophical mindset towards the community in a way that informs their politics and vice versa i don’t really think that should be controversial. (mine included!!!my internal definition of ‘lesbian’ is a goddamn rube goldberg machine of allowances for shit like my tacit acceptance that our species is a coincidental hivemind or that gender is an unavoidable illusion cast on how humans process data and that any personal sense or identity is held ransom by the extremely specific societal microconditions under which its person is subject to) like if we’re willing to accept that concepts like “genital preference” or any of the particular ways people try to identify themselves as the Truer/Purer/Realer incarnation of their label has a (in these cases more uncomplicatedly negative) causal relationship with the systems of bigotry and catergorization they are born under then i see no reason to hold identity itself as uniquely stagnant from causation like that. (VITALLY IMPORTANT: CRITIQUE OF THESE SORTS OF HEAVILY PERSONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF SELF RELATIVE TO SYSTEM MUST ONLY BE DONE IN RELATION TO AND IN CONTEXT OF BROADER CULTURAL PATTERNS, IF YOU WALK UP TO SOMEONE AND GO “well i think your identity is based on a bourgeoise alienation from the conditions under which sexuality arises! just identify as bi!!!” THATS WHATS GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS “BEING A DICK” AND DOES NOTHING TO JUSTIFY YOUR ANALYSIS OF BROADER IDENTOLOGICAL TRENDS AND HOW THEY MAY BE INFORMED BY QUEER HISTORY AND THE WAY IN WHICH THEY COULD INFORM THE QUEER FUTURE (INCLUDING QUALITATIVE JUDGEMENTS THEREOF)

ok i swear tangent over

VERSUS the understanding that what i refer to with such a description of “radical genderfuckery in the queer community” is merely a subset of lgbt+ people (getting tired if repeating the q word sorry i’m using them interchangeably with no intent to color your presumptions of like, the subset being inherently different than a more “traditionally named” set or anything lmao) being quirky and experimental in a way only differentiable from longstanding cultural dynamics by the way its behavior is informed by extremely online bullshit, with relatively little differentiating the end results except for bad takes on internet discourse and having the most annoying headcanons imaginable. like for instance the actual difference between, like, a lesboy? and like one-seventh of butches out there in general from an internal experience of gender standpoint is PROBABLY (my estimate i’m not a mind reader) way fucking less than the terminology makes it seem. which does invite argument as to whether such precise-of-detail yet imprecise-of-relational-dynamic-to-related-concepts-(orientation-systemic-privilege-etc) is warranted or necessary or if not necessary than a net good in any case, but should not, MUST not foster contempt nor scorn towards other fucking people who just fucking use that language because it works for them or they believe in it. except maybe if its some phenomenally misinformed clown nose bullcrap but lets face it all of us are terrible at identifying whats actually a farce produced out of malign ignorance and whats just some fucking kid playing around with language

also, and this goes for pretty much any fucking faction, arguments towards tradition or precedent for ANYTHING are easily exploited, functionally incomplete, and can only at best proove a phenomenon is not recent. like yes in years past we all used more lumpy labels without the same sense of internal division, or YES in years past we moved past using such lumpy labels and found more precise means of identification. those both are literally true, non contradictory, and yet despite each half swaying in opposite directions as to the goodness of this change of language each says jack shit to emphasize WHY that change may have been good or bad, besides that this was going on a while ago

[daisukoth]

LRB OH THANK GOD. THIS CONFIRMS PYRO'S ENGINEER ISN'T JUST FUCKING. GONE

[aviatrix-ash]

Lrb reminded me sometimes I do imagine some TFs who are jets cycling their engine compressors when they're a happy or even nervous 👉👈

Little jets are kinda high pitched while bigger jets have a low whale like groan

[dragoncarrion]

lrb art is stunning but i neevr could have imagined it was thomas the fucking engine

[draciformes]

Lrb is lighting up my brain. I want to use clever material engineering skills to build a massive tower of meat and raw stir fry veggies

[feralkwe]

lrb don't just take the word of a rando on tumblr. use your search engine of choice and read up on heavy menstrual bleeding from places like ACOG and NHS or whatever credible health org is local to you. some ob/gyn journals are free to read online. print/bookmark/save this info however you need to in order to advocate for yourself.

misery during your period *is not normal* no matter what anyone tells you. i know self advocacy is exhausting, especially when it comes to uterine care, but *do not suffer in silence*. and if all else fails, demand that they notate in your file that you brought it up and they refused to look into treatment for it. that has a tendency to get more traction.

[pranjaldalvi]

Bridge Bearing Market Emerging Trends: Innovations Driving Infrastructure Durability and Efficiency

The bridge bearing market plays a critical role in ensuring the stability, safety, and longevity of bridge structures worldwide. Bridge bearings are essential components designed to accommodate movements and forces caused by traffic loads, thermal expansion, wind, and seismic activity. As infrastructure demands rise globally, driven by urbanization, increased transportation needs, and aging bridges, the bridge bearing market is experiencing significant growth. This growth is accompanied by emerging trends that are shaping the future of bridge construction and maintenance.

This article explores the latest emerging trends in the bridge bearing market, highlighting how innovations and evolving requirements are influencing product development, application, and market dynamics.

Trend 1: Adoption of Advanced Materials for Enhanced Performance

One of the most notable trends in the bridge bearing market is the adoption of advanced materials designed to improve durability and performance. Traditional bridge bearings were predominantly made from steel and elastomers. However, to meet the increasing demands for longer service life and reduced maintenance, manufacturers are now integrating materials like high-performance elastomers, stainless steel, and composite materials.

These materials offer superior resistance to corrosion, wear, and environmental degradation, which is particularly important in harsh climates or corrosive environments such as coastal areas and industrial zones. The use of composites, for instance, reduces the overall weight of the bearings while maintaining high strength, making them ideal for modern bridge designs that prioritize lightweight yet robust components.

Trend 2: Growing Preference for Seismic-Resistant Bearings

With increasing awareness of seismic risks, especially in earthquake-prone regions, the demand for seismic-resistant bridge bearings is on the rise. These specialized bearings are engineered to accommodate seismic movements and absorb energy during earthquakes, thereby minimizing damage to the bridge structure.

Innovations such as lead-rubber bearings (LRBs) and friction pendulum bearings (FPBs) are gaining traction due to their ability to provide both flexibility and damping. Governments and infrastructure agencies are mandating the use of these seismic bearings in new projects and retrofitting older bridges, driving market growth and encouraging further technological advancements.

Trend 3: Integration of Smart Technologies and Sensors

The integration of smart technologies within bridge bearings is an emerging trend that promises to revolutionize bridge maintenance and monitoring. Sensors embedded within bridge bearings can provide real-time data on stress, displacement, temperature, and other critical parameters. This data enables predictive maintenance, early fault detection, and better asset management.

By reducing the need for manual inspections and minimizing downtime, smart bearings contribute to cost savings and improved safety. The growing trend of smart infrastructure, supported by the Internet of Things (IoT), is propelling investment in sensor-equipped bridge bearings.

Trend 4: Increased Focus on Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Solutions

Sustainability is becoming a key consideration in the construction and infrastructure sectors, and the bridge bearing market is no exception. Manufacturers are exploring eco-friendly materials and production processes to reduce the environmental footprint of bridge bearings.

Efforts include the use of recycled materials in elastomers, low-energy manufacturing techniques, and designs that facilitate easier recycling or replacement. Additionally, longer-lasting bearings reduce the frequency of replacements, thus minimizing waste. This growing emphasis on sustainability is aligned with global green infrastructure initiatives and regulatory pressures.

Trend 5: Expansion of Maintenance and Retrofit Markets

As many bridges worldwide reach or exceed their design life, there is an increasing need for maintenance, retrofitting, and upgrading of existing bridge bearings. This trend opens a substantial market for replacement bearings and retrofit solutions that enhance the lifespan and safety of aging infrastructure.

Retrofitting techniques that allow the installation of new bearings without extensive structural modifications are becoming popular. Furthermore, advancements in materials and design mean that retrofit bearings often offer improved performance compared to original components, making them an attractive option for infrastructure managers.

Trend 6: Modular and Prefabricated Bearing Solutions

To address the demand for faster construction and reduced on-site labor costs, the market is witnessing a shift towards modular and prefabricated bridge bearing solutions. Prefabrication allows for precision manufacturing in controlled environments, which improves quality and consistency.

These modular bearings can be quickly installed during bridge construction or maintenance, reducing traffic disruptions and project timelines. The trend is particularly prevalent in urban areas and on major transportation routes where minimizing downtime is critical.

Trend 7: Increasing Investment in Infrastructure and Urbanization

Global urbanization and economic growth have led to increased investments in infrastructure development, particularly in emerging economies. Governments are prioritizing the construction of new bridges and upgrading existing ones to support growing populations and freight movement.

This surge in infrastructure spending fuels demand for innovative and reliable bridge bearings that meet modern engineering standards and regulatory requirements. Additionally, mega infrastructure projects often incorporate the latest bearing technologies, helping push the market forward.

Trend 8: Emphasis on Customization and Engineering Services

Bridge projects vary widely in terms of design, scale, and environmental conditions, leading to a demand for customized bearing solutions. Manufacturers are increasingly offering engineering consultation and customized product design as part of their service offerings.

Customization ensures optimal performance tailored to specific project needs, such as unique load conditions or environmental factors. This trend also includes offering lifecycle services such as installation guidance, inspection, and maintenance, further strengthening customer relationships.

Conclusion

The bridge bearing market is undergoing significant transformation driven by technological advancements, changing regulatory landscapes, and evolving infrastructure needs. Emerging trends such as the adoption of advanced materials, seismic-resistant bearings, smart sensor integration, and sustainable manufacturing are shaping the future of this market.

As global infrastructure development continues at a rapid pace, these trends will enable safer, more durable, and cost-effective bridge solutions. Stakeholders who embrace innovation and sustainability in bridge bearing design and application will be well-positioned to capitalize on the growing opportunities in this vital market.

[lascapigliata]

lrb does sound Just like a friend of mine, in boston, who worked on self driving cars, and who once in order to tell a story from when he was in college wrote a "quick program" to scrape the entirety of a bodybuilding.com message board and compile it so he could search for a specific phrase to quote properly. some engineers are okay

[arundeepentp]

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[lrbsuk]

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[nablah]

lrb i personally think engineers can work for lockheed martin and other defense contractors but only if they sabotage the company. kill the cancer from the inside. get the money, give it to the people who need it and be a net negative to your boss. join the global intifada. dismantle the factory when you do quality assurance.

[anyotherstar]

lrb made me think of my old cat and I miss her :[ but I feel like the instant that phrase leaves my mouth for real the cat distribution system is gonna rev up its engine with a real little weirdo for me to bottle feed every two hours when right now im in the middle of finals and a busy work season so ill just post it to tumblr for everyone to read for now instead

[shannoneichorn]

I know this is the wrong site for it, but regarding the LRT/LRB on educating yourself widely...

Yesterday, my broad reading paid off a little.

I "waste" (invest) a lot of time reading the news blurbs in my daily bulletin at work that don't directly relate to my actual job. At home, I have spent a lot of time on social media--I spent a decade on Twitter following people I wanted to learn from or who had viewpoints different from mine. (Less so here--I just want to have a good time here, but my friends have broad interests and share.)

Recently at work, I got asked to step out of my lane and work with a different group on a specific task. It's not an entirely new-to-me area (far from), though I've never worked with the leadership there before.

We were speculating on how the future could go, and I brought in questions about how fusion developments could affect power rates and therefore workflow decisions and how climate change could affect siting considerations and how having different visualization and analysis techniques might affect workforce diversity.

And he seemed kind of surprised. Because those are not considerations I've ever heard discussed in similar areas.

They're things I picked up from "wasting time" on the internet.

I've also used what I've learned to advocate for DEIA and digital accessibility at work (not that I've made much headway yet).

I've found the information passed along my online interactions extremely valuable. It's delightful to be broadly educated.

That said, OP was bemoaning the attitudes that STEM students want to avoid humanities classes. The irony here is that I really appreciated my undergrad curriculum minimizing humanities requirements.

Because the US school system does a great job of draining joy from every field, I went into college thinking that humanities in academia were about writing pointless essays and getting critiqued on formatting and regurgitating facts.

No shade on my teachers--I liked them (mostly). I'm grateful that I got to learn things like evaluating biases in sources and logical fallacies, which have been fundamental to life in the last decade. (And probably before that, but I just didn't care yet.) But I didn't connect to the "great literature" and history.

So, I sought to avoid most humanities classes. Except German, which I adore, and fiction writing.

I wish, rather than enforcing requirements, curricula could let a topic be a gateway drug to the broader world.

"Sure, kid (past me), sure, you only want to study fiction and German. But while you write that book, you're going to have to look into history and politics and the government and military and what attitudes different audiences hold and..."

And it turns out, that's a lot to do while studying engineering. Maybe that's why I was so determined to take advantage of a curriculum with a minimum number of additional requirements. And I know I wasn't the only engineer to do so.

It's good to get exposed to a lot of things, and there's definitely a good argument for not letting people slip through the cracks. An engineer/compscientist with no understanding of the peopley parts is dangerous...but so are people who don't understand the technical things they encounter. (See: deep frier-frozen turkey combustion. See: dumping water on a grease fire.)

You'll never learn enough in an undergraduate course of study unless you catch a lifelong love of learning. That's really the only requirement a curriculum needs.*

*pretend that was my closing line. It's really good. I'm proud of it. I do not mean it literally, because you can't just teach someone to care. You have to come at the caring sideways, and that's what the curriculum is actually for.

[absolute-immunities]

Before we get to the geopolitics, can we have a moment to inhabit the technological sublime? Microchips are some of the most extraordinary objects humanity has ever made. Miller has a good illustration of this: the coronavirus is tiny, about a hundred billionths of a metre across, but it is a galumphing heifer of a beast compared to the smallest transistors being made in Fab 18, which are half that size. TSMC is now talking about transistor nodes in terms of three billionths of a metre. This is so small that quantum effects, which happen mostly at the subatomic level, become relevant.

The machinery needed to manufacture these extraordinarily delicate artefacts has got bigger and more complicated as the microchips have shrunk in size and increased in power. The silicon is etched onto the chips with a new technique called extreme ultraviolet lithography. Think of a microscope, which makes small things big. Now turn it round, so that the lens is making big things small. And now use that process to take a super-complex design and etch it onto an infinitesimally small microchip. That is lithography, which has been the basis of microchip manufacture ever since Jay Lathrop at TI invented it in 1958. But as the chips have got smaller, the lithography process has got more and more difficult.

At the far limit of the technology is the Dutch company ASML, the only firm in the world to have mastered EUV lithography. This process involves the production of EUV light, which in turn involves

“a tiny ball of tin measuring thirty millionths of a metre moving through a vacuum at a speed of around two hundred miles per hour. The tin is then struck twice with a laser, the first pulse to warm it up, the second to blast it into a plasma with a temperature around half a million degrees, many times hotter than the surface of the sun. This process of blasting tin is then repeated fifty thousand times per second to produce EUV light in the quantities necessary to fabricate chips.”

The company that learned how to do this is an American firm called Cymer. Their process depended on a laser so powerful it produced too much heat unless it could be cooled with fans; but the fans ran so fast they burned out their bearings; so engineers invented a process for holding the fans in mid-air, suspended by magnets. The company that invented the new laser is a German firm distractingly called Trumpf. Its development took a decade. Each laser consists of 457,329 parts. The next stage in EUV was the manufacture of a new kind of mirror, made by the German company Zeiss, the smoothest mirror ever made: if it was the same size as Germany, its smallest irregularity would be 0.1 millimetre. But the most complicated laser ever made and the smoothest mirror ever made are just two components of ASML’s lithography device. Look back over that chain: the Taiwanese company (TSMC) commissions the Dutch company (ASML) which commissions the US company (Cymer) which commissions the German company (Trumpf) and also the other German company (Zeiss). It is no wonder that ASML’s latest EUV device is ‘the most expensive mass-produced machine tool in history’.

At this point, the technological sublime and geopolitics merge. Chips are ubiquitous, but top-end chips are not: they are the product of a highly concentrated manufacturing process in which a tiny number of companies constitute an impassable global choke point. If you can’t work with ASML, you can’t make a high-end chip. If you can’t get your top-of-the-range chip made by TSMC, Samsung or Intel, there’s no point designing it, because nobody else can manufacture it.

[cidnangarlond]

lrb reading that rocket had 33 engines and going that sounds like a lot. how many did the apollo 11 have. and finding out it was 5