Structural health monitoring (SHM) Civil infrastructures such as bridges, viaducts, buildings, dams etc. are valuable national assets that must be maintained to ensure public safety. In a modern society, these structures facilitate our transportation networks, industrial activities, and everyday life. Currently, most of these infrastructures especially bridges, are either reaching their design lives or have … Read more
This article is an abstract of Dr. Koji IKEUCHI’s presentation who is a professor at the University of Tokyo since October 2016. Before that, he worked at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) till June 2016. As a civil engineer of the MLIT, He was in charge of flood control measures and … Read more
Tameer Construction (PVT) Ltd. A concern of Izhar Group of Companies, dealing in diversified fields of building construction for its needs and expansion in work, is looking for following dynamic professionals as part of their team at Head Office in Lahore and for its projects at various location in Pakistan. 1. Name of Position: Project … Read more
The joints between bricks in brick masonry are very important from aesthetic as well as structural point of view; because these joints are mostly remained rough and are a basic source through which the moisture penetrates from bottom to top of the wall. To make this weak point of brick masonry a strong and long … Read more
The access or penetration of moisture content inside a building through its walls, floors, or roof is known as DAMPNESS. Damp rising from the soil either through the bottom or through the ground surface, adjacent to the walls. Moisture penetrating the walls as a result of rain beating on them during continued wet weather. Moisture … Read more