Dear All,
I am a starting engineer and I wanted your views on the column layout. Basically, it is a one storied house and I wanted your advice for the layout of column. These are the few facts on the building, the external wall and partition wall are 200 mm and 100 mm brick masonry wall...
I am a Civil engineer and have been involved recently in design of surface steel penstock for a project. Given the layout of the penstock it is obvious that anchor blocks and saddle blocks will be required. However, since I am new to this I have surfed through the internet to get some good books...
Dear fellow Engineers
Our designer has proposed a backfill on top on concrete and confined by concrete on 3 sides by concrete. The designer has proposed to use a Cohesion less/ free draining material for this purpose and relative density of 80%. The backfill will be carrying the weight of the...
Dear fellow engineers
I have been having problems in my concrete for the couple of weeks in every grade of concrete.
Generally we keep the FA:CA=50%:50% which is as you know fixed after the all in aggregate gradation.
The fineness modulus varies from 2.7-3.5.
We have a good mix at the batching...
Dear friends
I am a freshly graduated Civil Engineer. Kindly suggest me with e books for the above topic. It should give with illustrated examples and also with proper guiding principles.Things like the orientation of building, space planning of rooms, plumbings and staircases and all the other...
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I work in a Hydropower Construction company for the client. This is my problem.
We have a 90 mtrs *3 chambers surface desilter chamber.So now the struture has an inclined wall near the invert about 1.2 mtrs of ht and running both ways of the chamber.We started pouring M50A20 grade...
