Structural Engineering

by yours truly Anyone here who uses Prokon’s column base design module? The one that…

achieving the design objectives, the design shall be based on characteristic values for material strengths…

The current revision of the code of practice, IS 800:2000, recommends limit state method for…

IS 800:2007 classifies elements in to three types, as per Cl. 3.7.3., as follows. 1.…

Plate elements of a cross-section may buckle locally due to compressive stresses. The local buckling…

1. Physical properties Physical properties of structural steel, as detailed by cl.2.2.4.1 of IS 800:2007,…

So for our previous beam, we know that we require two hinges for collapse (one…

Thus the ratio of elastic to plastic moment capacity is: This ratio is termed the shape…

In these analyses we used superposition often, knowing that for a linearly elastic structure it…

Introduction to Plastic Analysis: Analysis of stress, deflection and distortion determinations within the limit of…