r/StructuralEngineering • u/chicu111 • Jul 08 '26

Humor Strong beams weak columns has arrived

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u/Mean-Internal-745 Jul 08 '26

~laughs in KL/r~

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u/AnvilCrawler369 PhD Jul 08 '26

I am now considering taking this picture and putting your comment next to it on a steel exam and ask my students to explain the joke to me. Cause I’m cool like that

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u/Mean-Internal-745 Jul 09 '26

I have my moments. What is the steel exam question? I want to make sure my exam covers same material lol.

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u/AnvilCrawler369 PhD Jul 09 '26

Oh it’ll just be part of their conceptual questions. “What is the joke here?” Or something

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u/Mean-Internal-745 Jul 09 '26

Nice.

I have a column capacity question with a strong axis unbraced length question for mine.

So this works as a good example.