Top 10 key points to success

Everyone wants to succeed in life. As people are engaged in various pursuits of their livelihood there are various concepts of success. Regardless of one’s vocation, Top yaps is enumerating the ten key points to achieve success in your life.

10. There is no shortcut to success:

You must be devoted to your work and put in your very best while performing it. Don’t believe in miracles. If there is any miracle, it is only sincere hard work. Circumstances, environment etc. change over time. Try to mold yourself to new positions so that you adjust yourself well.

9. Be ambitious to attain success:

One must be ambitious to attain a good and respectable position in one’s career. All the same, one must avoid daydreaming and building castles in the air. Too high an ambition that is not possible because of certain unavoidable limitations may end in frustration.

8. Forget the past and live in present:

Some people are in the habit of brooding over the past. This is most undesirable. If your mind is caught in bondage and problems of the past, you will spoil your present as well as the future. This is not to say that you should not learn from your past experiences. Remember that the past has gone into history and the future is still unknown; it is the present which should be taken care of according to your ability. If you live the present well, then the future too will be good.

7. Develop a positive outlook:

You must develop a positive outlook on your life. Thoughts have great power. If you are always thinking negatively and are obsessed with worry and anxiety over a problem on hand, you are distancing yourself from success. It is extremely necessary to have positive thoughts on whatever problem you face.

6. Respect criticism:

If someone criticizes you for your work, habits or temperament, do not feel disturbed. In fact, constructive criticism gives you a direction where you can improve yourself. Later, you yourself will realize the relevance of constructive criticism for your long-term growth.

5. Learn new things:

Knowledge is power. You should always be ready to learn new things. This means that you should be respective to new ideas and new suggestions. Observe people and things and discuss with knowledgeable people on a subject of your interest.

4. Grab the opportunities:

You must be always vigilant in the workplace and look for opportunities that come your way. You should not let go any opportunity hastily thinking that you are not equal to the task. Carefully assess the requirements of a new position vis-a-vis your qualifications and experience and then take a final decision.

3. Don’t curse failure:

In case you fail to get the desired result, you must try to ascertain the cause responsible for it. Instead of brooding over failures, you should objectively analyze the reason in order to improve the chance of success in a subsequent effort. Occasional failures or setbacks are almost certain to occur. But these failures should not diminish your enthusiasm and devotion. These failures should be the stepping stones for eventual success.

2. Formulate your plans:

It is very important for a person who is ambitious and aspiring to attain success in life to know what he is going to do about his innovative idea. He must formulate his plan as perfectly as a draughtsman draws the picture of the proposed building or an artist paints his sketch. It must be borne in mind that nothing can take a form unless it has been first projected in one’s consciousness.

1. Strive to achieve the goal in a certain time:

You should strive to achieve your goal within a specified period. This demands utmost devotion to the chosen job and should be done after careful thought. Then a list of existing resources must be prepared so that the gaps in achieving the target can be filled. This must be followed by laying down the procedure for achieving the target. Having done this, one has to put in systematic and sustained efforts within the stipulated time. If the process for completing the job is spread over a long period, it is necessary to undertake an objective review periodically so that necessary corrections can be made.

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Idealized Structure

Idealized Structure. Having stated the various ways in which the
connections on a structure can be idealized, we are now ready to discuss
some of the techniques used to represent various structural systems by
idealized models.
As a first example, consider the jib crane and trolley in Fig. 2–5a. For
the structural analysis we can neglect the thickness of the two main
members and will assume that the joint at B is fabricated to be rigid.
Furthermore, the support connection at A can be modeled as a fixed
support and the details of the trolley excluded.Thus, the members of the
idealized structure are represented by two connected lines, and the load
on the hook is represented by a single concentrated force F, Fig. 2–5b.
This idealized structure shown here as a line drawing can now be used
for applying the principles of structural analysis, which will eventually
lead to the design of its two main members.
Beams and girders are often used to support building floors. In
particular, a girder is the main load-carrying element of the floor, whereas
the smaller elements having a shorter span and connected to the girders
are called beams. Often the loads that are applied to a beam or girder are
transmitted to it by the floor that is supported by the beam or girder.
Again, it is important to be able to appropriately idealize the system as a
series of models, which can be used to determine, to a close approximation,
the forces acting in the members. Consider, for example, the
framing used to support a typical floor slab in a building, Fig. 2–6a. Here
the slab is supported by floor joists located at even intervals, and these
in turn are supported by the two side girders AB and CD. For analysis it
is reasonable to assume that the joints are pin and/or roller connected
to the girders and that the girders are pin and/or roller connected to the
columns. The top view of the structural framing plan for this system is
shown in Fig. 2–6b. In this “graphic” scheme, notice that the “lines”
representing the joists do not touch the girders and the lines for the girders
do not touch the columns. This symbolizes pin- and/ or roller-supported
connections. On the other hand, if the framing plan is intended to
represent fixed-connected members, such as those that are welded

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Structural Design

 Structural Design
Whenever a structure is designed, it is important to give consideration
to both material and load uncertainties. These uncertainties include a
possible variability in material properties, residual stress in materials,
intended measurements being different from fabricated sizes, loadings
due to vibration or impact, and material corrosion or decay.
- ASD. Allowable-stress design (ASD) methods include both the
material and load uncertainties into a single factor of safety. The many
types of loads discussed previously can occur simultaneously on a
structure, but it is very unlikely that the maximum of all these loads will
occur at the same time. For example, both maximum wind and
earthquake loads normally do not act simultaneously on a structure. For
allowable-stress design the computed elastic stress in the material must
not exceed the allowable stress for each of various load combinations.
Typical load combinations as specified by the ASCE 7-10 Standard
include
• dead load
• 0.6 1dead load2 + 0.6 (wind load)
• 0.6 1dead load2 + 0.7 1earthquake load2
LRFD. Since uncertainty can be considered using probability theory,
there has been an increasing trend to separate material uncertainty from
load uncertainty. This method is called strength design or LRFD (load
and resistance factor design). For example, to account for the uncertainty
of loads, this method uses load factors applied to the loads or
combinations of loads. According to the ASCE 7-10 Standard, some of
the load factors and combinations are
• 1.4 (dead load)
•1.2 1dead load2 + 1.6 1live load2 + 0.5 1snow load2
• 0.9 (dead load) 1.0 (wind load)
• 0.9 (dead load) 1.0 (earthquake load)
In all these cases, the combination of loads is thought to provide a
maximum, yet realistic loading on the structure.

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