{"id":908,"date":"2013-04-21T23:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2013-04-21T23:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T23:51:22","slug":"how-can-i-contract-structural-engineering-services-for-a-sculpture-online-and-inexpensively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"How can I contract structural engineering services for a sculpture online and inexpensively?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"engineering failures\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1252\/4605951312_60f00300d3_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/25622716@N02\/4605951312\">thisisbossi<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by NixPhenom<\/i>: How can I contract structural engineering services for a sculpture online and inexpensively?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I need to have the strength of a bent piece of sheet metal analyzed to see the maximum load it can support given some gauge of stainless steel. I would also like some process engineering services to determine the best way to assemble the final sculpture. I would like to know the best and most economical way to contract these services online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Dave D<\/i><br \/>Go here to search the various structural engineering firms:-<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/online.acec.org\/acecforum\/acecLogin.asp<\/p>\n<p>They ain&#8217;t cheap! Some sculptors have hired firms like these, but you need a wealthy sponsor such as the City of New York or whomever.<\/p>\n<p>Or you could get yourself a copy of Solid Works and do your own analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Or you could build a test piece and measure the failure load yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Sculptors and civil engineers are not generally a happy mix. You will have your work cut out for you, as all sculptors do. The ways to stay on the right side of an engineer are as follows:-<\/p>\n<p>1) All financial arrangements must be agreed in advance. Do not show up with no money and ask what to do next!<br \/>\n2) Always follow through immediately on things like returning phone calls, providing information and so forth.<br \/>\n3) Do not change anything once you have asked for an analysis to be performed. If necessary, do another analysis (at extra cost, of course) later.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck &#8211; you are going to need it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by thisisbossi Question by NixPhenom: How can I contract structural engineering services for a sculpture online and inexpensively? I need to have the strength of a bent piece of sheet metal analyzed to see the maximum load it can support given some gauge of stainless steel. I would also like some process engineering services to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2387,90,2391,954,2390,2389,2388],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-contract","tag-engineering","tag-inexpensively","tag-online","tag-sculpture","tag-services","tag-structural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}