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Simeonjoe1:
Don't underestimate the UK military and their war industry. While I believe Russia has a numerical advantage, the UK can also stand on its own. It has its number and technological proven weapon. Comparing weapons 1 on 1, most UK weapons are technologically superior to its Russian counter part. UK also have an effective and well trained fighting force. Forget most of those Russian weapons are old and outdated from the ussr Era, they only have limited effective ones (but they have been improving on this), even their large military combatant are less experienced and professional compare to the UK (that's why Russia is massive cutting down its active service member down to create a more robust and effective fighting force).
Guy concerning nuclear weapon you don't have to target the whole of Russia or kill every one, all you just have to do is effectively cripple your opponents(targeting strategic locations). And like I said the UK stock is enough to decimate the Russian over and over again

Hello,
The United Kingdom stands no clear chance whatsoever against the Russian Armed forces. The Soviets posses the strongest armed forces in the whole of Europe. This entailed the formation of NATO during the cold war to protect European nations. It might interest you to note that as it stands today, the U.K currently, alone in a conflict, do not even stand a favourable chance in a military confrontation with even India. Please visit global fire power online (https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php) to assess the current military strengths of these nations. There is no basis whatsoever to compare the United Kingdom, solely (without NATO), to the Russian armed forces. The RS-28 Sarmat (called SATAN bY NATO) which is a liquid-fueled Super heavy intercontinental ballistic missile with hypersonic glide capabilities (excess of Mach 9 speeds) can easily wipe out the whole of London undetected by anti-ballistic missile systems.

Rest in Peace Dido
quite unfortunate...

Jokerman:
Civil engineering is still below mechanical engineering in the pecking order... All your FEA is copied from Mech.. Mechanics...

Not at all young man. Finite element methods is largely a mathematical technique used in obtaining approximate solutions in boundary-based value problems in engineering. It's a mathematical method that discretizes the entity, be it fluid flow, heat flux, flexible footings on spring foundations, thin plates and shells on pressure vessels etc for the sole purpose of obtaining and assembling the governing equations into stiffeness matrices with identifiable boundary conditions. It wasn't copied from Mechanical engineering as you claimed. As mechanical engineering is a sub-set of civil engineering. Mechanical engineering deals with determinate structures/bodies, kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies, structural dynamics, fluid mechanics (single and multiphase, compressible and incompressible flows), etc All of these are covered in civil engineering as courses in structural engineering, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, theories of deflection, slope, explicit stresses in shells, plates, etc are all taught to civil engineers and are the basis of software such as PLAXIS, ANSYS, STAADpro, ABAQUS, etc Please be aware that I practice both civil, mechanical (statics/ non-rotating), piping and pipeline engineering all at once.

Malcolm123:
For you to say civil engineering is not lucrative it shows ur IQ level ...or let me say u talk out of ignorance

There is no point dialoguing with u on it....you have little knowledge about engineering practice in nigeria generally i can deduct dat from all the gibberish u have wrote

He has spoken completely out of sheer ignorance. You may kindly ignore his assertions.

Lordbinsmar:
Respect to you Sir. I like your methodology of analysis. Even though OP has some interesting points, his knowledge of the engineering profession is extremely limited.

Thank you.

As a professional practicing engineer with close to two decades of practical engineering experience in the design of deep water structures, floating production systems, large and small displacement piles, Finite element design of foundations, design of numerous medium to high rise structures, culverts, bridges, etcetera, I can confidently inform whoever created this topic of partly misinforming the public in relation to the inexplicable comparison of Civil engineering, as a professional course, to physics. Firstly, Civil engineering, is the mother of all major engineering courses (Mechanical, Chemical, etc) and is subdivided into the following specialties;
1. Transportation engineering
2. Structural engineering
3. Water resources and environmental engineering
4. Civil engineering materials
5. Geotechnical engineering

Each of these sub-divisions have extensive applications in various industries and a thoroughbred Civil engineer who, for e.g, is grounded in structural engineering designs can, with time, easily work for himself, as a consultant in the comfort of his home, just by having core understanding of the theory of structures , reinforced concrete designs(Euro, BS codes), foundation designs (deep, shallow foundations), design of steel structures (such as telecommunication towers, shelters, crude/hydrocarbon storage tanks, gantry cranes, etc. A graduate civil engineer who is vast with the use of one, more, or a combination of tools such as SACS , ETAB, STAADpro, AUTOCAD, CIVIL 3D,etcetera can easily be employed in the oil industry, infrastructure industry, geotech companies, construction companies that handle EPCI projects, Govt parastatals (ministry of works, material testing parastatals, etc), or even just work for himself by attaching to a professional architect who gets building projects and handles, in the first instance, structural details of building projects, while learning the structural designs proper. The opportunities is boundless. But this depends on the competence of the civil engineer. A sound, diligent and hardworking Civil engineer can NEVER go hungry.
Secondly, a physicist can never perform the functions of a civil engineer as he is neither trained nor understands concepts such as Terzaghi's theory of foundation soil bearing capacities, Hansen's or Vesic's modification to Terzaghi's theories for inclined or eccentrically loaded foundations, etc. He has no understanding on the design of portal frame structures, design of bolted or welded connections, or design of retaining walls, slope stabilization structures, road designs, design of offshore fixed jacket platforms, lifting analysis, transportations analysis with wave and current kinematics, etc. He has or was never introduced to the BS codes (in school or elsewhere) the Eurocodes 1, 2, 3, etc. So he can't just practice. There are no rigid linkage between the two. He would also never get a COREN certification. Engineering is applied mathematics and applied science and mathematics/physics is the bedrock of engineering. Mathematics, in itself, is subdivided into Fluid mechanics, topology, abstract algebra, calculus and complex theory. When you plot bending moment diagram of a simply supported beam, for e.g, the equations defining the distribution of the moments on the beam are basically mathematics (polynomials or linear functions) in terms of the Moments or shear forces, etc. But a mathematician or a physicist who is not trained in Civil engineering would never understand these. He would understand the polynomial equations, but doesnt understand what bending moment diagram mean.
I have largely described avenues and opportunities that abound in structural engineering as an area of specialization. Similar opportunities abound in highway engineering (design/construction of roads, hydraulic structures, etc), geotechnical engineering (sub-surface investigation, geophysical investigation,etc), etc. Civil, is one of the most practical engineering professions in this country.
Nigeria is a developing nation and a competent, vast and hardworking civil engineer would be glad he studied the course at the completion of his study!

Beancounter93:
The Chinese and Russians may agree sometimes, but they are not that close...(and have even had disputes over their border in the past)

Also, China , while more advanced than they were 50 years ago are not necessarily up to the US level, especially in military tech. (eg they developed a stealth jet a few years ago, something that the US has had since the 1980's, if not earlier)Their space tech is at the level of the US and former USSR was in the 1970's...

Kindly be aware that stealth technology wasn't developed by the Americans but by a Russian Mathematician called Pyotr Ufimtsev. In the 60s Pyotr was conducting an advanced research into the deflection of strong electromagnetive waves firstly on 2D objects and then on 3D objects. He derived the mathematical equations with all his literature written in Russian. His works were later de-classified by the Russian military at the time and the Americans stole and studied his research which Locheed Martins used in the design of F-117, a stealth fighter and thereafter, the B-2 strategic bomber. The Russians are highly advanced in the field of spacial and analytical physics and mathematics. They are known to have designed and tested the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by mankind - the Tsar Bomba. With due considerations to the capabilities of western nations, it will be foolhardly for NATO to directly confront Russia as the consequent devastation far out weigh any benefits. The Russians single handedly fought a ruthless war with the Germans in the battle of Stalingrad - One of the most deadlist War in the history of Warfare. They stopped the powerful Germans and kicked them out of the Soviet Union.

ZEUS
By Eminem

Wondering why people can't distinguish clearly between the words 'their' and 'there'...quite unfortunate

LINTUNE:
bro but lets be frank, wizzy passed his message in a very disrespectful manner, i have no iot of respect for buhari as a person, but common, this is the president for christ sake...

There is freedom of Speech in a democracy. Eminem, for e.g, is known to always attack Trump vehemently and give him the middle finger.
In a live performance in Leeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0be7oEJG4
he criticized Trump at intervals and also wore a 'F*** Trump' T shirt. The Nigerian singer is free to air his opinion on issues. This is the hallmark of democracy.

OpinionCounts:
What shocks me is that we have even some girls from Rich and average families in this, though most are from not very well to do background, but a lot of the girls in this industry are very pretty yet very empty upstairs, infact some of them are not even literate but can compete in beauty with a miss world

Some of them sha will later make it financially and try to get some mental upgrade in learning and in civilization.

Poverty is a big factor....but believe me, some of these girls do not even come from very poor families, they come from the normal hand to mouth kind of family that just needs patience , hardwork, determination and the God factor to finally live an atleast average life(is this not also the case for most Nigerians?), But they decided to go the fast lane. Some are just out of pure laziness (desire to make quick money without working for it), primitive ignorance ( the ngbeke's that are trying to catch up to show they can also shine and be like other big girls), peer influence (bad company/ friends), illiteracy (when you know you are dumb and can't compete with others out there for decent jobs), lack of exposure (especially early exposure to a bigger ideal, a bigger truth and life reality...when u have been living in the rocks a mud house will look like 5 star hotel to you, so you can be easily deceived into selling your body to people, not knowing that you are belittling and destroying yourself, not knowing that life is way bigger than that), etc etc

You just HIT THE NAIL directly on the head...excellent write-up

wonder233:
kill not killed... Why are Nigerians writing like this these days?

Highly pathetic english you get to read online...even from bloggers and some newspapers alike..Many of the writers mix up 'their' and 'there' as well as other numerous grammatical errors while constructing tenses...It's quite irritating to read these if you ask me

sexylassie2:
Stop making Nigeria love like hell. Many of us might not see the developed Nigeria in our life time but 1000 dollars per month is a lot of money here, in Nigeria, 1000 dollars can get you lot of things, you can pay for your kids fees, take care of your family, even have leftover for entertainment,even your self esteem will be off the roof.

Abroad in the developed world,1000 dollars is living in poverty.

Now to be frank with you, is it every body in Nigeria that agbero have attack, police stops or armed robbers and kidnappers attack, the reality is very few when you compare it to the general population.

Or do you think, abroad, no armed robbers, no crime infested areas? Most times abroad, your money determine where you will live just the same way in Nigeria, if you earn low, you will live in crime infested areas, if you earn high, the chances of living in good neighborhood is high.

I just love ur responses. You're a smart baby girl.

PROOF of D12

yek:
What can one do with this in real life?

Quite a lot.
1. In reinforced concrete design of structures, the derived equations from the rectangular-parabolic compressive stress block (assumed rectangular in the british code of practice, BS8110) used in determining the lever arm (distance from compression block to tensile force) is derived from equations such as this.
We deplore this equation in the design of reinforced concrete structures subjected to flexural stresses such as low/high rise buildings, retaining walls, foundations, etc

2. In structural dynamics or vibrational mechanics, for free damped, free undamped, forced damped or forced undamped systems the derived equations to understudy the response of a structure or structural system under the action of pulsating loads (forced vibration) requires the solution of a second order differential non-homogenous equation resulting to algebraic equations such as the one put up here

3. In the structural design of sheet piles walls under the action of lateral surcharge, lateral soil stresses, soil pore pressures, etc the determination of the minimum penetration depth of sheet piles or cofferdam from equilibrium equations for stability, narrows down to the resolution of polynomials such as this, and making the penetration depth 'd' the subject of the formula


There are several other citations I can't mention at this time. So these are very applicable. It is also used in the shell design of weapon systems such as the Russian Khinzal weapon by solving the bi-harmonic equations for thin plates and shells
The world generally evolves around applied mathematics.

apatheticme:
They are more concerned about fv... ck related conquests and "opening threads to bash Nigerian girls" than "English"

After all, "English" is not needed to be a Marlian, neither is it a qualification to be a yahoo boy. English is also not a criteria to sleep with a Nigerian girl and run to nairaland to announce to the whole world that you've slept with all Nigerian girls and they are whores

May God help the future of this nation

My sister it's a very huge concern for me reading some of these write ups on the internet. A whole lot of chaotic mix up of 'am' as against I'm, 'there' instead of 'their' and so on. I also read statements like 'message me' as opposed to 'send me a message', etc. Quite unfortunate.

Escabado:
I see lots of post this December both on nairaland and instagram about many Nigerian girls in there late 20s and early 30 searching for husband . If these girls are 18 - 24 all they do is to insult every man that comes there way, Calling dem broke and all sort of name . They only give you attention if you are ready to spend money on them. My advice to guys is never to fall into the scam of this evil Nigerian girls posting that they need husband . Is because age is no more on there side . Remember a Leopard can not change it spot. They are still the same insultive ,rude and arrogant girls u know ooo. So clean your slippers and run

'Their' and 'There' are not one and the same. A lot of horrible english on the internet and no one appears to be raising an eyebrow on this growing concern.

ayoshyne:
This infuriates me a lot. Those are the only kind of marks on my car too. Funny enough, those that open the doors to hit your car don't often realize what they've done until u draw their attention to it. And of course Na sorry dem go talk mshew.
However, there are ways to reduce or prevent your car from scratches or bashes.. 1. Leave home extra early to avoid morning rush, leave work 9:30 / 10pm if u work in traffic zones.
2. When in traffic, always stick to the lane by the road dividers, avoid that Lane close to the sidewalks where u have Kekes, bikes and danfos competing and dragging lanes with you. All these have worked for me. My present car is 3yrs old with no bash or visible scratch, only minor ones I had to use brake oil to wipe. In all, patience is key, do no struggle for roads with Danfo, Keke and bike, sometimes u need to act a fool to get away from scratches.

Perfect. This is the golden rule. I have no scratch(es) on my cars as well even though I drive everyday to and from work. I drive fast when the road is free however, while in traffic, I don't struggle road with folks and commercial bus drivers as well. As regards scratches due to parked vehicles, the golden rule I employ when parking my car is to park on the side that is parallel and opposite the driver's door with the assumption that the driver is the only occupant of the vehicle. With this I do not have to worry when he comes and opens his door. This has worked significantly well for me, 90% of the time

ola33t:
Trash.
Bitch can't sing, can't dance, she only has a good body.
But I'm yet to know how a good body makes someone a good musician. This crappy tastless generation has accomodated lots of crappy talentless people as celebrities.

It's really end time as they say, that's why lots of crappy shiits are regarded as celebrities. I'm pissed as fck.

REAL TALK MATE!

Was introduced to the site by a colleague back In 2008, while working for an engr firm on Ligali Ayorinde street v.i

akaahs:
Weldon sir. From ur contribution on the subject matter, one can deduce that u re a civil engineer. I ll need help from you sir. I'm a pgd student and I intend to write my final year project on design of a small earth dam. Please, are u willing to help?

In whatever way I can, I would... you can always write me an email for technical support and documentation where necessary..

For someone who has put in over fifteen years practicing core engineering design and applied mathematical principles in solving a vast array of structural statics, dynamics ,impusive and geotechnic engineering problems, I completely disagree with the notion as presented in the opening remarks. I was trained in nigeria and Iv applied all I was taught as an undergraduate in the design of bridges, water retaining structures, slope stabilization, understanding of soil consolidation beneath foundations of high rise structures, modelling of finite elements in the undstanding of soil particle and pile interactions in STAAD spring selections etc iv used newton's finite divided difference methods in topographic survey to predict ground elevation on non-chainage points where i was to situate and design foundations for piperacks for proper levelling, iv thoroghly employed calculus in the calulation and simulation of irregular waves and current loads on shore protection and berthing structures by numerical idealization, applied lagrange interpolation polynomial methods in the design of Larssen sheet piles in order to determine the min depth of pile penetration for stability beneath proposed dredged points, applied bernouli's equations severally and various expressions for head losses in steady state pipeline flow on projects to determine pressure drops and pump sizing requirements, reynold's number for hydrocarbon fluid composition etc. The list is ENDLESS...I was trained in nigeria and by nigerian lecturers and there are brilliant nigerians trained in nigeria as well. What is lacking is the exposure and the inability of most lecturers to solve practical problems on one hand and bridge this glaring gap during lectures making it difficult for the students to see a correlation. But these are the same mathematical and engineering principles the russians and asians used and are using in the design of complicated weapon systems. The Iranians are following suit as iv interfaced with a number of them on projects. Fields such as partial differential equations and ordinary differential equations are EXTENSIVELY deployed in structural and mechanical engineering in the explanation of the behavior of sytems under static or dynamic.loading. flow tru soils, one dimensional consolidation and settlement prediction of soil strata, deflection of structural elements, buckling analysis and determination of effective lengths in steel designs etc are all mathematical and highly applicable in the field of engineering.

resurrectn:
Sent you a mail Chief. Cheers.

Recheck your email. Every response to ur email returns a failure delivery mail.

resurrectn:
Good day sir, please how can I reach you?
Warm regards.

By writing me an email and I will respond

martinagoha:
Congratulation, my brother. Please, do you mean only four successful applications made it to the final interview for the experienced hire? Please explain better. Thanks.

Yes, for the experienced hire under design engineer category, we were only four that made it to the last stage. The stage before this, we were about eight in number.

areolae:
Congratulations brother. You are definitely a professional & understand the tenets of job interview process as evidenced by your mature posts on here. All the best. I reckon it would be a meeting with the departmental head.

Cheers.

It was actually an interview session with exxon managers since it was a final stage and we were only four successful applicants. Thanks for your mature comment.

Thanks for the best wishes.. I appreciate

Exxon has started inviting successful second stage applicants for the final interview. This is for experienced applicants. I've just received my invitation..

aphrodisiac:
See Senior man! Please was it dragnet that conducted your test too, and how did you prepare for it? Thanks.

Exxon conducted the tests themselves. I didn't prepare for it as iv been off location on the field and only came in to write the test. At the same time i'm thoroghly grounded in my field of structural engineering so I solved all the questions correctly, ticked appropraitely and finished the entire 50 questions 10min before time. questions cut across offshore structures, wave kinematics, RC structures, welding design, indeterminate structures, waste water management and biological oxygen demand etc I answered all and I was certain I would be called, all things being equal, so I wasnt too surprised.

yungmin:
Congrats bro. Pls how many years of experience do you have? Is it oil n gas related?

I have about fifteen years experience in the sector you mentioned.

I was called for the interview. I'm guessing they've contacted all successful applicants.