Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

Brick is considered here, as it is most common foundation materials and used over the world extensively; but actually not as broken chips...

Now-a-days we are worried about waste product and their safe disposal. Like other products concrete also becomes waste like -old buil...

Another cause of conventional wood foundation damage is insect attack. They can attack foundations usually above ground level. The insect...

Foundation is often rest on natural rock. The rocks are found to be eroded due to different erosion agent of ambient environment. Dear re...

Dear reader we have already discussed about movement of fault in our previous post. Here actually we will define type of fault movement. ...

Dear reader in our last post we have discussed about existence clay soil having high plasticity in foundation and embankment itself and ...

Whatever the internal structures loess soil show more or less collapse nature and threaten foundation safety . We know consolidation is as...

Loess soil lose its strength and suffer severe volume change when it get saturated. This behavior of loess makes it susceptible to suppor...

Dear reader we have discussed about permeability of loess soil in previous post, here we will discuss about another engineering property ...

Dear reader we have discussed about factors that control permeability of soil in previous post. The factors are recalled here: a. Si...

Dear reader we are discussing this topic according to ASTM C33 which provides specification for aggregates for concrete . Dear reader we h...

Geologic evidence for earthquake hazard analysis is mainly focused on pointing out of faults . The techniques that are introduced by geo...