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Effect of Impact Load on Lap Length of Reinforcements in RC Structures

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Lap length and anchorage length of reinforcements is very important for continuity, strength, and ease of construction in reinforced concrete structures. When reinforcements are...
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Environmental Engineering

Effects of Trees on Wind Comfort of Pedestrians

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Pedestrian wind comfort can be improved when horizontally incoming airflow passes through trees in the urban areas. This is according to recent research carried...
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Modeling of Soils Using Isogeometric Analysis

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Researchers from the Department of Construction Sciences, Lund University, Sweden have presented isogeometric analysis as an alternative to finite element analysis for modelling of...
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High Temperature Behaviour of Concrete Produced with Desert Sand

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There has always been some issues with the use of desert sand as a construction material due to the fact that it is too...
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Concrete

The Role of Compression Steel in Deflection of Reinforced Concrete Structures

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Deflection is one of the most important serviceability limit state criteria in the design of reinforced concrete structures. Excessive deflection in a structure can...
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Dynamic Analysis

Understanding Human-Structure Interaction

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Recent researches have shown that human beings interact with structural systems undergoing vibration. Initially it was thought that human body is an inert mass...
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Construction

TMT Reinforcements Can Change Design Specifications in Nigeria

Ubani Obinna - 0
Nigeria’s reinforcement market is usually categorised into ‘local’ and ‘foreign’ reinforcements which are priced differently in the market. Local reinforcements are manufactured in the...
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Artificial Intelligence

BIM can Assist Construction Robots in Object Recognition

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The construction industry remains one of the least automated industries which depend on manual human labour for maximum productivity. The role of robots in...
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Architecture

3D Building Services Systems Integration in Design of Buildings

Ivy Ugorji - 0
Building service systems (BSS) are important components that makes a building functional and habitable. BSS includes piping network of fresh water and wastewater, electrical...
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News

Waste Tyres can Improve Seismic Performance of Integral Abutment Bridges

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Resuse of about 1.5 billion waste tyres that are produced annually worldwide inspired this research on the behaviour of rubberised backfills for integral abutment...
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Reputable Journals in Geotechnical Engineering

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Geotechnical engineering is the application of engineering principles to the acquisition, interpretation, and use of knowledge of materials of the Earth's crust and earth...
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Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning can be used to Detect Cracks in Fire Damaged Structures

Ubani Obinna - 0
Researchers from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, have proposed a machine learning technique for detecting surface cracks on fire damaged concrete. Even though...
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Guidelines for Tying of Reinforcement

Construction Ubani Obinna - 0
In the construction of reinforced concrete structures, reinforcement bars must be tied together in order to hold them in place and to also facilitate...
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Cost of Reinforcement Works in Nigeria

Construction Ubani Obinna - 1
Installation of reinforcements is an important item of work in the construction of reinforced concrete structures. The cost of reinforcement works therefore significantly impacts...
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Design of Shear Walls

Eurocode 2 Ubani Obinna - 0
Shear walls are structural members that provide additional lateral stiffness to a building by resisting shear, moment, and axial forces, which are produced due...
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Technical Guide: Detailing and Arrangement of Beam Reinforcements on Site

Beams Mubarak Shittu - 3
Beams are horizontal structural elements used for supporting lateral loads. In conventional reinforced concrete structures, beams usually receive load from the floor slab, but...
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EDITOR PICKS

Elastic Analysis of Circular Plates

Slabs Ubani Obinna - 0
A plate is a flat structural element that has a thickness that is small compared with the lateral dimensions. Plates are bounded by two...
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Shear Wall-Frame Interaction in High-Rise Buildings

Frames Ubani Obinna - 0
Shear walls and frames (comprising of columns and beams) are distinct structural systems that can be used in resisting lateral actions in high-rise buildings....
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Effects of Wind on Billboard Structures

Steel Structures Ubani Obinna - 0
Billboards are large outdoor advertising structures that are found along highways and city centres. Due to their large size and flexibility for creative output,...
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Structural Analysis and Design of Residential Buildings Using Staad.Pro, Orion, and Manual Calculations

Structural Analysis Ubani Obinna Uzodimma - 30
This should be a long post, but I am going to try and keep it as brief as possible. This post is more like...
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PRACTICAL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STEEL ROOF TRUSSES TO EUROCODE 3: A SAMPLE DESIGN

Structural Analysis Ubani Obinna Uzodimma - 28
1.0 INTRODUCTION The most widespread alternative for roof construction in Nigeria is the use of trusses, of which timber and steel are the primary choice...
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Can you identify the cause of failure of this building?

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Structural failure is real, and it is the duty of structural engineers to identify all possible modes of failure in a structure, and design...
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