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Steel: Beam Design
Steel beams are to be designed to suit the following limit states: ● Bending strength at ULS (including…
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Steel: Column Design
Steel structural members are designed to resist yielding, buckling, and rupture under ultimate forces. Steel…
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Steel Design
There are two stages in steel design: ● Structural member design for adequate stiffness and strength…
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Reinforced Concrete – Slab Design
Types of suspended slabs that are considered (slabs which are supported by beams, columns, or walls)…
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Reinforced Concrete – Beam Design
The applied loads include direct compression forces, as well as, compressive and tensile stresses that are…
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Reinforced Concrete: Column Design
Design columns and other compression members where their vertical loads act concentrically to the neutral…
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Reinforced Concrete Design
Elastic response is due to applied loads but plastic behavior can be below and above…
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Rule of Thumb for RCC Design
Fire resistance (hrs)Minimum beam width (mm)Minimum thickness of floors (mm)Minimum wall thickness (p<0.4%)Min wall thickness…
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Designing: Process and Methods
There are typically two types of design; simple design and rigid design. ● Simple Design: This…
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The future of structural engineering
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states that employment of civil engineers (there is no separate…