A Familiar Refrain

Awhile back. Ferry (1990) voiced a familiar refrain "We do not like rules and regulations. We are free, we have choices, and we intend to make them— we don t like others telling us what we can or cannot do." We can extend this idea further "Yes, nobody should be able to tell us what to do. We have choices, and we should be able to make them." The problem is that we often give little thought to their repercussions when we make choices that satisfy our immediate wants and desires. Soimd familiar Most of us know we need... 

We here choose the first alternative in order to help the users by using a familiar computer environment, and to integrate the development of the SHE information with the general IT development in the company. The second alternative is cost-efficient in the short run. The key point in refraining from the selection of this solution is to make management feel ownership of the new system rather than seeing it as an external imposition. Experience shows that it is difficult to reach potential user groups beyond SHE experts with a proprietary system. 

Sometimes it was not easy to decide what should be included and what should be omitted or the extent of detail to which each item should be discussed. We decided in general to emphasize the technologically related matters and to refrain finm discussing purely scientific principles. Naturally, these decisions are always subjective and chapters dealing with those subjects with which we are more familiar are undoubtedly treated more precisely than others. This is natural, because otherwise the individual chapters should each have been written by an expert on that particular topic. As our original manuscript already exceeded the maximum allowed by the publisher, such an expert treatise would have exceeded the publisher s maximum several times over. Nevertheless, we hope that our book gets a good reception from the reader. 

In this section, we present a brief survey of the properties of water. We refrain from duplicating material that has been discussed fully by Eisenberg and Kauzmann (1969). The reader is presumed to be familiar... 

Clearly, for A = 0 the equations above convert into the familiar Saint-Venant equation (e.g., Sokolnikoff [2], eq. (52.21)). Finding of the parameters L- and L2 brings to an end the solution of the problem, for given and L2 it is a straightforward matter to determine the stress components from the equations (1.10) and (1.26). To save on space we refrain from giving a list of the pertinent equations, and turn to a simple illustrative example. 

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