This article explores practical steps to avoid such pitfalls, focusing on validation and verification processes during the modeling process.
Category: Analysis
This article explores the impact of settlement on structures, particularly how it impacts design internal forces.
This article introduces engineers to the various techniques available to monitor movement in historic structures.
This article explores the analysis and design of slab-less staircases, sometimes called saw-tooth staircases
This article explores into the distinctive aspects of footbridge design, including the reduced live loads, the freedom to explore different structural forms, the importance of user experience, and the materials typically used
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.
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.