The OpenSees message board is kind of a mess. Not due to posters, responders, or moderators, but because of the huge amount of spam posts. I've seen various forms of message board spam including offers for cell phone numbers, online games, and refrigeration equipment, as well as some spam that's NSFW. Removing all the spam … Continue reading Backlink Hijinks
Category: Random Bits
Striking YouTube Gold
It's been a busy week, one in which I have not managed my time very well. While 71 posts sit in my Drafts folder, I haven't sat down to get one to the finish line. So, why not add more to the Drafts folder? While the history and use of reliability modules in OpenSees will … Continue reading Striking YouTube Gold
Syllabus by Blogging
Since joining the faculty at Eastchester, I've taught nonlinear structural analysis many times. The course content is shaped by what I learned, and continue to learn, from Frank, Greg, Filip, and Silvia. The blog is another outcropping of what I've learned. So I've integrated many of the posts into the course, which consists of the … Continue reading Syllabus by Blogging
OpenSees Blog Delurking Week
It's 2021 International Blog Delurking Week--the first full week of January. A lot has changed since last year's delurking week. Whether you lurk, running OpenSees in your cave, or actively comment here on the blog or on the OpenSees message board or Facebook group, please say "Hello" in the Comments section and let everyone know … Continue reading OpenSees Blog Delurking Week
OpenSees Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that you're here reading the blog. Last year's Thanksgiving post was a little preachy. This year, I simply want to reiterate that I'm thankful to have been a part of OpenSees from the beginning. Some exciting things are happening with OpenSees right now and … Continue reading OpenSees Thanksgiving
Twitter Bot 200
The OpenSees Twitter bot, the one that likes and retweets any tweet with the hashtags #OpenSees or #OpenSeesPy, passed the 200 follower mark recently after just under a year in service. The bot's mission is to share with the Twitterverse all the cool things people do with OpenSees. Some day I'd like to create a … Continue reading Twitter Bot 200
A Quad Out West
I wrote this limerick in 2000 after coding the four node quad element in OpenSees. I once programmed a quad out West, Displacement-based, so not the best. Debugged emphatically, Converges quadratically. It even passes the patch test. I'm no Chris Jones. This and the algorithmic limerick are the extent of my limerick library.
Early Landscape of OpenSees
In 2016, a photographer recreated historic photos of Chinese cities to highlight the changes the cities have undergone. For example, here is a spot in Chengdu in 1994 and 2016. (I agree, 1994 is not that historic). Photo from dheera.net licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 In 1999, when I started working on OpenSees (G3 at … Continue reading Early Landscape of OpenSees
NaBloPoMo 2020 – OpenSees Edition
November is National Blog Posting Month, or NaBloPoMo. The goal is to write a blog post a day for the full month of November, and in doing so, engage readers and get the creative juices flowing. November is also NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but we're talking about blog posts, not journal articles. Each day … Continue reading NaBloPoMo 2020 – OpenSees Edition
Glenn Holcomb, The Prof.
The Glenn Willis Holcomb Professorship in Structural Engineering was established at Oregon State University (OSU) in 2011 through a gift from the estate of Col. Roy C. Edgerton. While Col. Edgerton had an impressive civil engineering career, this post will focus on "The Prof." Glenn Holcomb joined the faculty at OSU in 1920 (when OSU … Continue reading Glenn Holcomb, The Prof.
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