3D CAD Software Comparison Blog Series: Starting the Motorcycle Frame Design in Solidworks™ Welcome back to our 3D CAD software comparison blog series. Recall that in last week’s discussion, we introduced our plan to to model a motorcycle frame in three different 3D CAD software packages. Also, we gave a brief history of the three CAD software packages [...]
3D CAD Software Comparison Blog Series: Creo™ vs Solidworks™ vs Inventor™ In this blog series, we will perform a 3D CAD software comparison by designing or modeling a custom motorcycle frame in three different 3D CAD programs: Creo™ vs Solidworks™ vs Inventor™. We will review the CAD design workflow and feature sets of each 3D CAD design [...]
As environmentally-conscious engineers, we here at Glew Engineering do what we can to save energy and resources both around home and around the office. This might mean choosing products that are more environmentally friendly or energy-efficient. It might mean using our surroundings to our advantage, like pulling cold air through a home or office at night so the building [...]
Figure 1: Wind load calculation example structures Welcome back to our blog series on the phenomenon called wind load and how it affects civil and mechanical engineers. Wind load is the force that blowing wind exerts on any device or structure that extends above ground level. After an initial introduction to the factors that affect wind load on an [...]
Our last blog entry was an overview of how to calculate wind load, the force that blowing wind exerts on a tall object. There are a number of factors that influence the actual wind load on a real building, including the surrounding terrain, nearby structures and trees, and typical weather patterns for the area. The most complicated wind load calculations [...]
Part 1 of our Wind Load Series “Wind load” is a calculated value representing the total force on a structure or object cause by pressure from wind moving over it. In this blog series, we will discuss different methods for wind load calculations, the factors that influence its magnitude, and the effects a high wind load can have on a structure. [...]
Figure 1: Unpowered Sony Ericsson S500i LCD screen at 200x magnification In our last blog post, I wrote about some of the physics and materials science principles that go into the design and manufacture of liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens. The eponymous liquid crystals (LCs) in such a display have to be quite small in order to create a [...]
Figure 1: Powered LCD screen of a Sony Ericsson S500i at 200x magnification. Liquid crystal display (LCD) screens are omnipresent in our technologically saturated lives. Having largely displaced the older CRT screens, LCDs make up a large portion of the digital imaging we see all around us. They are present in everything from our ubiquitous smartphones and computer screens to [...]
Figure 1: Composite layered heater from patent US 9,224,626 Figure 1: Composite layered heater from patent US 9,224,626 B2 Our eponymous Dr. Glew, P.E. recently contributed to a new patent on an advanced thin-film electric heater, titled “Composite substrate for layered heaters”. Watlow Electric, based in St. Louis, hired Glew Engineering and Dr. Glew to help develop this [...]
Figure 1: Sunlight on high-rise windows In my last blog post, I wrote about the conduction and radiation of thermal energy through windows and the thermal transmittance value, called the U-Factor, that characterizes that heat transfer. The U-factor is useful in evaluating window performance and making wise decisions when specifying components for a building, but it is only one piece [...]
