Vineys Poinless Poll: Tunnels

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

round ones are smaller, so better would love to try one of the huge ones in norway

Surely they'd have a structural weak point in the middle of the roof?

The engineer must know that!

(sorry, someone pass me my coat!)

:P hehe. square ones are structurally much worse! Round ones transmit the forces much better. I'd quite like to drive down one of the pedestrian sized tunnels though, could be star shaped for all i care

[quote=Baph;1134207]Surely they'd have a structural weak point in the middle of the roof?

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why?

Ignore me, mis-quoted. I meant square ones have a structural weak point.

I'm ill*, I have an excuse, leave me alone

*mentally

Originally Posted by Baph

Ignore me, mis-quoted. I meant square ones have a structural weak point.

good! was wondering if i should have stayed awake during more lectures at uni

I'd rather ride though round... its stronger.

Originally Posted by sarah

good! was wondering if i should have stayed awake during more lectures at uni

Yeah, it is a little difficult. I'm stuck in the rolls royce lab lab all day now. I bet you can imagine how much fun that is! Surely you miss all those lovely structures/statics/dynamic lectures?!

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Yeah, it is a little difficult. I'm stuck in the rolls royce lab lab all day now. I bet you can imagine how much fun that is! Surely you miss all those lovely structures/statics/dynamic lectures?!

it didn't mind doing labs, at least you get to do/watch something. but the lectures were soooooooo boring. do you share lecturers with the mech eng dept?

Originally Posted by Triumphumphumph

why would anyone try to dig a square tunnel?

Flight Lieutenant Danny Velinski dug 17 tunnels with his bare hands, all of them square and he knows more than you. And he was claustraphobic.

Did he escape on a rowing boat in the end or was that James Coburn?

Originally Posted by sarah

it didn't mind doing labs, at least you get to do/watch something. but the lectures were soooooooo boring. do you share lecturers with the mech eng dept?

They're pretty much identical. We share quite a few subjects, otherwise they change 'car' to 'plane'. The merger this year has screwed things up big time. We're doing an entirely new course put together from lots of bits of others, makes it a nightmare trying to work out what we should be learning. We also do really complicated subjects having not done any of the groundwork we should have done. It gets really petty the way the two universities bicker at each other.