Early in my career, I lived and breathed in rationality. Those were heady times. My blog has been recently going against stupidity, but I may have a chance to dream of rationality again.
Since I knew that nobody reads me, and I had no chance in the preacher department, my style has been satirical. But rationality beckons, and I'm digging up the old stuff.
My greatest work was in the basic physics of rock. We looked at stresses, and the response of undergound openings to earthquakes. For that I needed a deep dive into the physics of earthquakes. Most important, was the expected stresses propagated in seismic waves.
For the test cases in my papers, I concluded that, in granite, the stresses were below noise expected in a cavern, or below the expected safety factors in design. There was heartbreak when the old company ignored all this with their Niagara tunnel. Good thing that unstable creation was abandoned after building.
I also had to venture into the general stability of caverns. This was all ignored when looking for underground nuclear waste storage. I expanded into glacial loading for caverns, and lots of other things.
It was always my greatest dream to be 'not ignored'. For Canada and our western world, this has to come at the expense of great disasters. We are heading to those. I would like to be in a position to prevent great disasters.
My blog now turns serious for a little while. If you are one of my 3 readers, go along with this. Thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment