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Recent Posts
Earth Retaining Systems for Deep Excavations
Braced Walls or (mostly) strut support Soldier pile and lagging walls with anchor or strut support Sheet piling or sheet pile walls with anchor or strut support Pile walls (contiguous, secant) with anchor or strut support Diaphragm walls or ...
Eco-Friendly Building Materials
Today many people that are building or remodeling their houses choose to use eco-friendly building materials. An eco-friendly building material is one that increases the efficiency of energy used and reduces impact on human well-being and the enviro...
Design of RC Beams for Shear
Uncracked Elastic Beam Behavior Look at the shear and bending moment diagrams. The acting shear stress distribution on the beam: The acting stresses distributed across the cross-section. The shear stress acting on the rectangular beam. The eq...
Quality in Construction
Quality in construction is defined as ‘meeting or exceeding the requirement of client/owners. In construction industry, quality is used in different every than the product industry. In the product industry, quality of some product is better than th...
Building Materials
Building material is any material which is used for a construction purpose. Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, sand, wood and rocks, even twigs and leaves have been used to construct buildings. Apart from naturally occurring materials...
Astounding Japanese Highways, Bridges & Interchanges
Japan saw most of its infrastructure bombed back to the stone age in the final years of World War II, which makes the country’s post-war rejuvenation all the more astounding. Huge, complex public works projects saw a concrete & steel web o...

