Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

Precast piles are driven with the help of pile driver /hammer to reach expected foundation depth. Different types of hammers are used in ...

In various cases both from economy and practicability; where deep foundation cannot be adopted and as well excavation of entire problem s...

Geotextiles are extensively using in many civil engineering projects where soil improvement or slope stability is of great importance. In...

Organic soil is a problematic soil . The soil that have properties that may result to serious foundation problems , where there have large...

Pile is a deep foundation system to accommodate access structural load to the relatively firm stratum through end bearing or skin resista...

We have already learned that volumetric batching is not frequently used in concrete industry because of its incorrect measuring of ingred...

Water requirement for concrete to be compacted fully for given effort or practical effort is a measure of workability; also placing witho...

Dear reader we have discussed about different way of transporting / handling of concrete in delivery or placing end. Still some methods...

Though the title of this post is cement weighing, we will discuss about consequence of not weighing cement in concrete batching . In smal...

We have discussed about difficulties in piling in plastic clay , contact pressure of saturated clay, heaved piles, and numerous posts abou...

Cracking of any form can lead to failure of concrete members. So in concrete engineering, this term is studied and handled with care. We ...

People are asking their engineers about earthquake safety and vulnerability of their dwelling or owned structures. But we have seen struc...