On Elon Musk, Matrix Theory and Matrix the Movie

Just earlier, I read this news about Elon Musk saying we are living in a simulation. I can partly believe his hypothesis. I have delve into this topic a bit in my blog about Matrix. It just simply suggest that we are living inside a bigger Matrix. I fear of this conclusion of course and I dont like to believe in this but for the sake of being a thinking man, I entertain the idea without affecting my sanity.

Everything happening now is computer related. Every datas we showed to the world event the word I typed can be theoretically converted into a set of matrix leading to a bigger set of matrix which can guess my personality. Imagine that! I fear of that yet its amazing how some code in the apps on android can more or less depicts what you are thinking.

So..there is a substance on that news. Since I love the matrix subject during my postgraduate course.I am able to find the analogy of this with the way things are happening in our world. I may be alone on this kind of thinking, but thats how I am able to understand the concept of the subject. Thats how we are taught to learn a subject. It is by finding connection between the subject and other subject..and its connection I find is in the real world. After all, Matrix is a Mathematical term that has been incorporated in the programming world. Thats how powerful it is.

Id like to analyse the concept of Matrix and explain how I find its analogy in the real world in an outline like manner. But this endeavour is quite lengthy yet fulfilling..In short I am proposing a mathematical explanation of whats happening in the physical world... Amazing! #YOLO #justsaying

Dynamic Analysis of Building using IBC 2000

I am tasked to conduct a training in the office about Dynamic Analysis of the building using the latest code. Having studied Structural Dynamics as one of the major subject in Masters course, I am confident I can explain them in front of graduate engineers.  Again, before making any presentation, I need to determine first the audience. I need to focus on the graduate engineers who has no prior knowledge on the theory of structural dynamics. Thus, I plan to present the topics in the following order:

1. Explanation and Definition of Concepts - Structural Dynamics
2. Single Degree of Freedom Systems as the Basis of Derivation of Response Spectra in NSCP(National Structural Code of the Philippines)
3. Multiple Degrees of Freedom Systems with Manual Calculation to Explain How Software Computes the Period, Modes, and Base Shear of a structure.
4. Hands on Modeling of 20 Storey Building in ETABS/STAAD to simulate dynamic analysis.
1. Explanation of NSCP/IBC provisions while performing dynamic analysis
2. Comparison of Equivalent Static Analysis Procedure and Dynamic Analysis Base Shear.
3. Verification of Results using Softwares: ETABS/STAAD.
• This portion will highlight the discrepancies on each softwares.
• In short, a minor changes in structure stiffness and mass distribution in the building affects the software result through their manner of idealizing the model.
• However, item no. 3 above or manual calculation will explain the importance of theory regardless of software you used.
• Use of spreadsheet to verify software result and to minimize effort of manual calculation.
4. Member Design from Dynamic Analysis Result using Spreadsheet in Accordance to NSCP/IBC provisions.

I believe this training will help my audience appreciate the structural dynamics further since it gave a direct application in design of high rise building. As of this writing, more advance theories on structural analysis like Performance Based Design are emerging. But, it is my personal advise for interested engineers to study in depth first Structural Dynamics prior to learning Performance Based Design!

There was a paper recently published about the termination of Response Spectrum Analysis. 

This training surely highlight one of the reasons why they said so.