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Design of Strap Footing | Cantilever Footing

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Strap footings or cantilever footings are a special form of combined footings. They consist of two separate bases that are connected (balanced) by a...

IABSE Postpones 2020 Congress due to COVID-19

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The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) has postponed the IABSE 2020 Congress ChristChurch New Zealand, initially scheduled to hold from 2...

Design of Slender Columns According to EC2

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Loads from slabs and beams are transferred to the foundations through the columns. In typical cases, columns are usually rectangular or circular in shape....

Settlement of Foundations

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Foundation soils undergo settlement and deformation when loaded. When permissible stress methods are utilized in design, settlement due to foundation soil consolidation is usually...

Minimum Area of Steel for Imposed Deformation Cracking

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Minimum reinforcement is provided to ensure that yielding does not occur, and by so doing, cracking is adequately controlled in a concrete section. The...

How to Apply Load Model 1 (LM 1) on Highway Bridges

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Highway bridges are designed to resist various systems of loads (actions) and load combinations. One of the most prominent actions on highway bridges is...

Is This Ultimate or Serviceability Limit State Failure?

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Kindly look at the image carefully, and lend your professional opinion if the failure of the building will be categorized under ultimate or serviceability...

Structural Stability of a Ten-Storey Braced Steel Frame

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Structural stability is broadly defined as the capacity of a structure to recover equilibrium. As a topic in structural engineering, it is concerned with...

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Free MATLAB Code for Flexural Design of R.C. Sections According to EC2

In this post, I am going to present an extremely simplified MATLAB code for carrying out flexural design of reinforced concrete beams (rectangular or...

Analysis of Sub-Frames Using the Stiffness Method

Several codes of practice in the world allow us to idealise structures into 2-dimensional frames for simplified analysis. For sub-frames, it is obvious that...

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Voided Slab Bridge Decks: Design and Construction

Utilizing void formers of some sort to create a voided slab is one of the most popular ways of reducing the weight of a...

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Hemp and Recycled Aggregate Concrete

Hemp and Recycled Aggregates Concrete (HRAC) is a sustainable concrete where coarse aggregates are partially replaced with industrial hemp fibers and recycled concrete aggregates...

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Influence Lines

In bridge design, it is very necessary that bridge decks support both static and moving loads. Every component of a bridge needs to be...

Axial Load Distribution of Piles under Eccentric Vertical Load

During the design and construction of pile foundations, there are instances of eccentric loading that may arise because column positions do not align with...

Curtailment of Reinforcement in Concrete Piles

Reinforcements in concrete piles are usually provided to counteract the bending and tensile stresses that are developed during the installation or working life of...

Design of Column Base Plate Connections (EC3)

This article is aimed at providing the procedure for the design of column base plates subjected to axial and shear forces according to Eurocode ...

Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) Piles

Continuous flight auger (CFA) piles are cast-in-situ replacement piles that are constructed by rotating and driving a hollow-stem continuous flight auger into the ground...

Causes of Deterioration of Used Concrete Sewer Pipes

Concrete is the building material that is most usually used for sewer systems because of its favorable structural qualities, capacity for prefabrication, and freedom...

CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Concrete is one the most utilised construction material in the world because it is strong, readily available, durable, and adaptable. However, numerous studies have...
In civil engineering construction works, contractors bidding for a job are always required to specify the rate they will use in executing a given...

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