Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Diversion Dam Software

First of all, I would like to give thanks to the people who made the creation of this software possible. To Engr. Zeny for encouragement to me to write this program and support during that time. To Engr. Cocoy for giving answers to every questions that I can throw and allowing me to take a peek for his excel program similar to the one I wrote and to my fellow designers and friends who helped me debug and test the program to see if the results were acceptable.

This program I called 'Diversion' is an aid to hydraulic

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Android Canal Design

As a designer of irrigation structures, one of the most structure that I often encounter to design is the irrigation canal. Because of this, some of us created computer programs to aid us in the computation of hydraulic analysis of irrigation or drainage canals. However,

Prevent Flash Drives from Being Infected by Viruses

Flash drives or USB sticks are very good at handling files fast at portable. You can bring your electronic files anywhere with just a small hardware and just plug-in in any available machine that can read it. However this advantage has a corresponding disadvantage associated with.

Flash drive are also pretty easy to be infected by computer viruses and as easy as spreading them to other machines. Now I will share a simple tweak to prevent flash drives from being infected by viruses. This is what I'm using now, and even if you plug it in an infected computer, the risk of being infected by virus automatically is eliminated. It can only be infected by virus by manually copying the infected file on the drive. So here it is.

1. First, format the flash drive to NTFS file system. See image below:

Import Terrain Surface From Google Earth to Autocad Civil 3D

As the title says, we will input contours from google earth to autocad civil 3D 2010.
First, you will need to have Autocad Civil 3D and Google earth installed in your system and an internet  connection as well. First go to google earth and zoom in to areas

Structural analysis for vertical concrete canal linings

Assumptions:
1. No water inside the canal and the embankment outside
 is up to the top bank of the canal.
2. Soil is saturated.

Procedure of analysis:

1. Compute for pressure at canal bottom using the formula: