Structural construction requires study connections to keep heavy-duty materials together. As such, workers use appropriate structural fasteners to facilitate this. Thus, crucial knowledge of these fasteners would be best.
There are various fasteners available in the market you can use and each has its application. Furthermore, one type of fastener can have different classifications. For…
If you have ever worked on a mega Construction project you would have already know what is rebar splice coupler? What is mechanical splicing of rebars? What different types are of rebar splicing system? What are “type-1” or “type -2” mechanical splicing systems?If…
A strap footing also known as cantilever footing, is a special case of combined foundation in which two separate footings are tied together by a beam called tie beam or strap beam.Mostly in cities, the houses are adjacent to each other due to limited and congested space…
The wood timber that is suitable for construction is obtained from trees that will measure 0.6m in girth or more. There are different types of woods available for various purposes. The woods that is available for construction is called as timber.
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As strength and durability is the major concern in construction, the timber as a construction material is less…
As a civil engineer and construction expert, you’d be familiar with a lot of common beam types and kinds but did you know there are a lot of uncommon types of beams you don’t know.
Or in other words there are many uncommon types of beams you should know and in this post…
What would you do if you enter in a building and saw some cracks in a beautiful pattern like that of an ECG of human heart? Obviously you will start running out of that building. But what if the designer of that building gives you a surety that he has checked all the…
Bridge Design for the Civil and Structural Professional Engineering Exams by Rober H and Jai B. Kim
July 11, 2017
This Book on Bridge Design is intended to serve both as a study reference for practicing engineers and engineering faculty preparing for the civil and structural professional engineering examinations, and as classroom text for civil engineering seniors and graduate students.
Bridge Design for the Civil and Structural Professional Engineering Exams by Rober H and Jai B. Kim
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The book about Principles of Structural Design is among other series of Handbooks being published by CRC publishers. Structural design is the systematic and precise investigation and examination of the stability, strength and rigidity of structures.
The basic objective in…
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…
Bridges in a broad spectrum is one of the major Infrastructure types that depicts the development and expansion of a region. The significance and value of a Bridge is doubt less at all. These structures have provided the ease and reduced the distances between two cities and countries. I have worked in regions full of mountains where one region is separated from the other through a vigorous river…
In a stress-strain curve there are various regions and limits like you might have heard about elastic limit and yielding point etc. However in this post we will not talk about all of these points and will only discuss about a phenomenon named “Strain Hardening”.
This…
Today, we have gone through a problem at site, there were some dowels of #6 diameter projecting from the base concrete for the wall of a room. During site execution of other works some rebars were poorly crooked and twisted, so it was decided to straight these rebars with…
Recently one of our fans have asked us on a social networking site the above cited question about why we use steel reinforcement in concrete moreover why only steel not any other metal available in the industry.
Well, working on a mega DAM as structural engineer I can imagine how much huge quantity of reinforcement is actually used now days, I mean 36 mm (#11) bundles of 3 bars and in 3 layers…
What Is The Difference Between Lap Splice Development And Anchorage Length
December 20, 2016
Reinforced cement concrete is the widest used construction material in civil engineering whether it is that of dam, highway bridges, buildings or infrastructures. Reinforcement used along with concrete proves to be the best available material in terms of economy, strength…
Provision of reinforcement in concrete, we all know, is due to its tension carrying capability which can be utilized completely provided the bond between the steel reinforcement and concrete is up-to-the-mark and does not lack any required friction and anchorage. However…
Bar Bending Schedule or BBS is actually a detailed tabulated worksheet showing the particulars of reinforcing bars as needed in reinforcement drawings of a structure. The phrase “Bar Bending” is so because at the steel yard where different types of reinforcement are cut and bent this table is used as a reference to bend the reinforcement bars in desired and required shape and sizes.
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