Knowing the density of soil at field is of utmost importance for a transportation and civil engineer. The Soil under the action of load consolidates and settles due to empty pores and spaces and also due to expulsion of moisture and air within those pores and interstices. You can read about the test, its procedure, … Read more
Structural Concrete Slabs are constructed to provide flat surfaces, usually horizontal, in building floors, roofs, bridges, and other types of structures. The slab may be supported by walls, by reinforced concrete beams usually cast monolithically with the slab, by structural steel beams, by columns, or by the ground. The depth of a slab is usually … Read more
Reinforced Concrete Floor systems normally consist of slabs and beams that are placed monolithic-ally. As a result, the two parts act together to resist loads. In effect, the beams have extra width\’s on their tops, called flanges and the resulting T-shaped beams are called T-beams. The part of a T Beam below the slab is … Read more
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIAS) offer a short course on Tunnels Concept, Design and Construction on 25-26 August 2014, PIAS, Islamabad, Pakistan. The details of this course is as under. Scope: The Course focuses on planning, design and construction of tunnels, sharing the knowledge and experience of experts from Pakistan Atomic Energy … Read more
Railway engineering is a significant branch of transportation engineering, Railway transportation is an on-land transportation system with air ways and sea ways as other parallel off-land transportation means. Railway transportation share a healthy burden of transportation of a community or country, carrying large bulky luggage from one end to heavy duty tanks, military equipment at … Read more