Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

Now-a-days pumping concrete to inaccessible distance is very common. Different specifications are established to make concrete workable an...

We all are usually concerned about water/cement ratio of fresh concrete ; here we will learn about water/cement ratio of hardened concrete...

We know prestressed concrete need relatively high strength concrete . Now our question is-how much strength is economical? Generally it i...

Geotechnical investigation is important for construction of building as owner or his authorized agent have to submit this document to ...

Dear reader we have discussed many posts about shallow foundation ; here our concern is plain concrete and masonry unit foundation . At fi...

Dear reader, still there have many foundation constructed of wood. The main draw-back of timber foundations materials is deterioration u...

We know raft foundation is adopted when bearing area required to support superstructure loading is equal or close to available floor area...

Once timber piles were very popular as deep foundation ; still they have importance in foundation construction and many building foundatio...

Dear reader in our previous post we have discussed about many types of foundation , but so far grillage foundation has not been discussed....

At first we will learn about ground water control according to IBC. Where it is found that ground water table is at equal or more than 15...

Dear reader we have already discussed about seismic site classification and seismic design criteria according to international building ...

Dear reader this is relatively new term in this blog, controlled low-strength material; this are used to establish structural fill/backfil...