This article presents an overview of the key aspects of pile foundation design, outlining the principles, design methods, and specific requirements set out in Eurocode 7 and the UK National Annex.
Category: Analysis
This article is concerned with the analysis of beams on elastic foundations. It provides a background and a suitable method that can be applied for hand calculations.
This article is concerned with the hydraulic aspects of designing a box culvert. It deals particularly with the aspects of sizing a box culvert to ensure that it’s able to deal with the anticipated peak flood discharge without any adverse effect throughout the service life of the culvert.
This article explores the analysis of free-standing staircases. It provides a comprehensive review of different analytical and numerical approach for analyzing free-standing staircases and introduces a simplified method suitable for preliminary analysis and design.
Estimating the deflection of long span trusses is considered a challenging subject as it often requires tedious calculations when done by hand. This article presents a straightforward method for determining deflection in trusses.
This article focuses on the significance of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in predicting the behavior of complex engineering systems. It delves into common errors in FEA, such as meshing and boundary condition errors, and provides strategies to avoid them. By understanding these errors and implementing preventive measures, engineers can enhance the reliability of FEA models.
When an adjacent footing overlay the area of the soil wedge of a retaining structure, the footing exerts a lateral surcharge pressure against the retaining wall, which must be considered in the analysis and design of the retaining structure.
Transfer structures are used in buildings with vertical element discontinuities and where a direct load passage to the foundations is not practicable. This article offers…
This article is concerned with the design of waffle slabs supported on solid column heads – a slab option that combines the benefits of a…
When assessing the safety of an existing building, a significantly different approach is required compared to when planning a new structure. This article explores how…