Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

The possibility of overturning and sliding of the surrounding building shall be considered during excavation. The minimum factor safety ...

Steel piles are usually rotted H shapes or pipe piles. Wide-flange beams or I beams may also be used; However, the H-shape is especially...

The Andes mountain range is the highest mountain range outside Asia. The highest peak, Aconcagua, rises to 6,962 m (22,840 ft) above sea ...

According to National Bureau of Standards ( NBS), pile driven in disturbed, or fill, soils will tend to undergo relatively more corrosion....

About 50 million years ago, the collision of the Indian subcontinent and Asia, gave a great height to Mount Everest. Although the northwa...

In addition to the all loads (Rain loads, loads due to flood and surge, temperature effects, snow load, soil and hydrostatic pressure, loa...

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world's second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century. Successful predictions of ...

A structural failure, in some cases, would merely be an inconvenience. In other cases, loss of life and significant loss of property may b...

The earthquake occurred near Huaxian, Shaanxi (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital o...

This is the third largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake. ...

Popularity of Flate Plate The use of flatplate appeals to designers particularly because design flexibility is possible through shif...

CFRP is used in civil engineering, automobile and other fields. But it have some drawbacks which limits its use in some fields. The first...

In high-end sports equipments carbon fibre reinforced polymer has found perfect due to its light weighing property in compare to aluminium...

The magnitude 7.6 southern Sumatra earthquake of September 30, 2009 widely felt throughout Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore ...

Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer has found a lot of use in aerodynamics. For the same strength, a carbon-fiber frame weighs less than a air...

Definition : Two walls with a 5 cm to 8 cm comprise a cavity wall having cavity between them. The outer wall also known as outer leaf, c...

Introduction Concrete is a chemically combined mass which is manufactured from binding materials and inert materials with water. I...

The earth has two kinds of crust. The continents are mostly made of thick granite. When continents pull apart, the gap is filled by thin c...

The Great Chilean Earthquake is also known as 1960 Valdivia earthquake. This quake was preceded by 4 foreshocks bigger than magnitude 7.0,...

Among the earthquake generated energy, traveled through the earth producing disruption, the only quantity that can be measured is that w...