Civil Engineer throughout his life has to play with countless materials. This book is an encyclopedia related to those materials. Every material has its own nature, properties and characteristics and you as a civil engineer must be able to figure out all of these properties in order to decide the optimum material that should be … Read more
Engineering Drawing, also called technical drawing and engineering graphics, is the graphical representation of shape of any physical object which may be a part of a machine, a building, a dam, or any other complicated structure. The shape of some simple objects like spheres, cubes, cylinders, etc., may be described in words and sentences but … Read more
An engineer who is instructed to investigate and report on a deteriorated concrete structure, and to prepare recommendations for necessary remedial work, should be clear in his own mind on the extent of this responsibilities to his client. If he is responsible for the inspection of the remedial work to ensure that the requirements of … Read more
A fibre is a unit of matter characterized by flexibility, fineness and a high ratio of length to thickness. Because fibres have a high surface to volume ratio, they can be extremely strong materials. According to their origin, textile fibres may be classified as natural fibres , when they occur in nature in fibre … Read more
Foundation engineering has been practiced as an art, without help of science, since time immemorial up to 1920 when it had achieved a considerable amount of refinement. It was in the earlier 1920s that a concerted effort was made to study and understand the physical laws governing the behavior of sub surface materials, i.e.. soil … Read more
