Civil engineers have always had a tough job, but as designs continue to get more complicated thanks to advancements in architectural technology, the job is only becoming tougher! Fortunately, modern technology also provides solutions to complicated problems. Then again, in order to successfully use that technology to your advantage, you need to get up close and personal with the products created…
Recently I got an email from one of our fans and he was asking help about what stresses should be considered while modeling dome in ETABS. He was confused in hoop, meridian and bending stresses. Here is the excerpt of this email.
I have modeled a dome with 40 ft radius in…
Artlantis is a family of stand-alone rendering applications developed for architects and designers.Below will you find a link to Artlantis Studio Download free Version 5.1.2.2 for both 32 bit and 64 bit applications multi-lingual.
What is Artlantis Studio?
Recognized and…
ShapeDo offers a management tool called TrackChanges for designing construction and infrastructure projects for the purpose of saving time and money. The tool focuses engineering information that makes it possible to monitor changes and adjustments between different versions of the plan and various parties. It makes engineering information visually accessible immediately, while saving on…
In most of civil engineering projects from Housing to hydraulic related projects hydrology is mostly involved in combination with fluid mechanics. Water distribution networks are of significance importance from satisfaction of end user point of view.
Bentley WaterCAD…
Unable to Connect to Database Connection, Would you like to configure the database connection now? Primavera P6 [SOLVED]
October 17, 2014
During the Primavera running process or mostly due to computer crash due to power supply failure or any similar issue you got an error in Primavera P6 regarding connection to database PMDB,
Reason
PMDB is Project Management Database that is connected via Microsoft SQL…
SAP is an acronym of Structural Analysis Program, the complete name of the software is SAP2000. SAP2000 is a general purpose finite element program which performs the static or dynamic, linear or nonlinear analysis of structural system.
What is SAP2000?
SAP2000 is among the top structural engineering softwares used by civil engineers for the analysis and design of structural systems, ranging from…
Structural analysis is a very significant and major field of study in civil engineering. Subjects like Engineering Mechanics, Theory of Structure, and Structural Engineering all includes different methods and techniques to solve the analysis of a structure.
Structure is…
Primavera P6 is the latest software package that is used for comprehensive enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM) solutions. Primavera was founded by Primavera Systems Inc. in 1983 which is then acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2008.
Installation of Primavera is a…
Civil Engineering has projects that include large number of activities, excess amount of resources in terms of labor, machinery, time and tools. All these activities are to be managed. Planning engineer first has to perform work break down Structure (WBS) and then allocate resources and time to it.
With the induction of softwares in the field of civil engineering the software companies have also…
Bridge is a very important and strategic infrastructure of an area connecting and joining the two cities or region by spanning space or some hurdle. Dont worry today we will be going to download CSI Bridge 2017 from this link for free. The delicacy and fragility of its…
Project Management in general or construction management in particular is a very significant and important part of any civil engineering projects that includes labour, activities that has specific duration and some resources like machinery or time as well. A project by a…
Question: Which software is mostly used ETABS or SAP, which software should be learn first?
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Answer:
ETABS is purely building software , you can design any type of building in etabs but you cannot design Retaining walls , basement walls , Underground water tank and Over heard water tank walls in it.
Where as for SAP , it can also be…
In ETABS during the design and analysis of beams there are certain modification factors used to incorporate the uncertainty and other factors like monolithic behavior etc. One of that modification factor is Torsional constant modification factor. In this post I will be…
What is meshing? What is role of meshing in design of concrete structures?
April 11, 2014
Meshing is the task of partitioning a spatial domain into simple geometric elements such as triangles (in 2D) or tetrahedrons (in 3D). Meshes typically have to conform to boundaries. Furthermore, for many applications there are quality criteria that need to be met, such as…
What is finite element analysis and how many types are used in analysis and design of concrete structures
April 11, 2014
Advancements in the field of computer aided engineering during the last two decades have been quite extensive and have led to considerable benefits to many engineering industries. Similarly the advantages can also be observed in the building industry where the softwares and tools which uses finite element have allowed the introduction of innovative and efficient building products along with…
