User talk:Basar

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I notice you reverted my edit of the Katie Holmes article. SATs is incorrect; SAT (singular) is the correct form. 209.236.231.253 01:11, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

• I just noticed you redid it. My apologies, and thank you. 209.236.231.253 01:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
• Indeed; I was reverting the edit before yours. Basar 01:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bearing capacity

I'm not sure that the Terzaghi equations should be included in the Bearing capacity article, as Hansen and Meyerhof are much more commonly used by practicing engineers. I rewrote the sentence about allowable bearing capacity in soil mechanics to be a little more general; while a F.S. of 3 is common, it's not universal; there's a common rough method which has a F.S. > 2.57, but not necessarily 3. Also, the F.S. of 3 is for dead plus live loads; we typically allow an increase of 33% (reduction of F.S. of 25%) for wind and seismic (or other transient) loads. But meanwhile, thanks for picking up the ball on the geotech articles; I'd reached a point where I was too close to them to contemplate significant improvements, and was sticking to vandal reverts and minor edits. Argyriou (talk) 23:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)