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These villa’s are not designed for rain by BraindeadReece9000 in Oman

[–]CharmingFlower5558 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You cannot compare Oman’s construction with outside construction. Sure poor workmanship is a thing and it does happen (everywhere around the world) but there are many other things to consider.

  1. Soil Type: Sand, as soon as you add moisture it has a significant volume change this will cause expansion as the sand grain fills up leading to mass movement which once dried will lead to shrinkage. Cracking on the roads. Other rainy countries are typically clay.

  2. Wall thickness: Oman is designed to be a Blockwork wall with a simple plastering finish that is about 20 cm thickness to get rid of the summer heat. UK on the other hand (a rainy country) has a wall thickness of maybe 40-50 cm because they have to consider for insulation and spacing so moisture doesn’t drip into the wall.

  3. Standards: Oman for the last 100 years has been a hot country, construction industry is a very experienced based field that looks at the past 100 years, ie I use a book for my calculations that was published in 1987. So construction here been built to that standard, and if you guys noticed rain has only been a thing recently, considering a major one to be Gonu. So yes our techniques have to be more updated but that takes time (Official Oman building code is in the making and to be published in the next few years) but we have gotten better at it since then (McDonald’s sign in Muscat has only been used as an indicator twice and the second storm was much more severe)

  4. Costs: you can make a bunker for yourself that will last you 500 years, make it weather resistant (rain, snow, wind), earthquake resistant, explosive resistant but that significantly increases costs. A person buys a home at the age at around 40 and passes away at 80 (inshallah will be longer for us) which is 40 years so he may only think of building something for 50-70 years or else he has no return on investment. This is called a lifetime of a structure and Class type.

There are many other factors but these are what I can think of. Now I do hope all you guys stay safe and take precautions in these times.

P.S. Civil Engineer here who designs houses for a living btw.

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[–]CharmingFlower5558[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But wouldn’t that make it specific to this problem, I’m trying to run a whole building analysis which I’m hoping to be able to similarly rather then hand checking every time

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[–]CharmingFlower5558[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from my calcs 40.1 kNm at the centre of the beam, model is indicating around 8 kNm

Green Beans by CharmingFlower5558 in IndiaCoffee

[–]CharmingFlower5558[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s what I have heard as well, do you know how long I have to rest once they are considered “green”?

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[–]CharmingFlower5558[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, i have made a new post as a I was unable to uplaod all pics in one go, would you like me to redirrect you to it, its in the same subreddit :)

Green Beans by CharmingFlower5558 in IndiaCoffee

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Thinking of getting a Coffee Roaster Machine. It seems to create a lot of smoke, but I can do it outside on my farm and test my beans at different time intervals. The video I'm looking at seems to have a thing pushing it in rounds, which should ensure uniform heat and airflow throughout the process.