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Topic 28:
Your view on iMechanica Safety Engineering and Risk Management Debate
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Topic 8:
subsea integrity and reliability management

After many years of teaching elementary mechanics and being unhappy with the high price of existing texts and their tendency to lead students into a game of pattern matching as opposed to thinking about fundamentals, I decided to assemble my lectures into a book.  So if you are looking for something different and concise on this topic you may wish to have a look at this book.  The book is also well suited for use as a refresher due to its brevity.

Dear Colleagues,

Body mechanics describes how your body moves. Being aware of and practicing good body mechanics throughout your day may help prevent injury and reduce strain on your body. Whether you're sitting at a desk all day or working on a drilling platform, you can practice and improve your body mechanics to help prevent stress and pain and reduce wear and tear on your muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints.

I try to work with the function setbymerge and I keep getting an error. (syntaxerror:invalid syntax)

I don't know what I do wrong see below the code line



part=mdb.models['mesh_for_analysis'].parts['PART-1']

part.SetByMerge(name='outer',sets=(part.[YminElemList], part.[YmaxElemList], part.[ZmaxElemList], part.[ZminElemList], part.[XmaxElemList], part.[XminElemList]))

I have two questions regarding the Abaqus

1) if I use the getbyboundingbox function on elements (or nodes) I get a long tuple (or I think it's a tuple) when I convert it to a list I can work with the Python normal commands like: append, remove etc. my problem is to change the list back to something that the Abaqus can work with. for example if I use the set function it doesn't work. see below a code for example.

2) if I have two sets and I want there intersection how can I do that?

 Using divers in offshore operations carries significant risks.  The environment presents a number of hazards such as poor lighting, restricted oxygen supply and sometimes extreme temperatures or pressures.  Discuss these risks and the safety measures in place to help reduce them.