Porter_'s Recipe for Exam Success:
- study until ~6pm
- cook a nice dinner (helps me unwind)
- 2 glasses of red wine or beer
- go to bed early
- seduce wife (~90% success rate)
- wake up at 5:30am and administer caffeine IV
CERM 13th ed. Example 51.1 uses a shear strength reduction factor (phi) of 0.85. Everything I've read in the CERM and ACI 318 leads me to believe this should be 0.75. Is this a typo in the CERM or is there some special circumstance for one-way slab design that would make this 0.85?
ASCE (2010) Guidelines:
2-3 for light sleep
4-6 for deep, restful sleep
7-9 for "oh **** I slept through my alarm"
10+ for waking up at 9am in the Taco Bell parking lot
My first thought as well. Management has been making good decisions the last couple years so I suppose I'll just have faith that this will pan out as a good move.
WR&E - DONE
Transpo. - DONE
Constr. - DONE
Eng. Econ. - DONE
Geotech. - DONE
Struct./Codes - (4.5 wks) 9/19 - 10/21
Practice exam - 10/22
Brush up - 10/23
bahh. i haven't been able to study nearly as much as i would like to. the good news: i have a very solid understanding of the...
the Indexes are on the PPi2Pass website. i don't think you'll find (legally) the Appendix in PDF form. for example, here's the 14th edition Index: http://ppi2pass.com/Docs/bookInfo/CERM/CERMindex.pdf