This article explores how engineers assess the factor of safety in conservation, the challenges they face, and the most effective strategies for reinforcing historic structures without unnecessary interventions.
Category: Steel
This article discusses the theoretical basis of column buckling, emphasizing Euler’s formula for idealized conditions and modifications for real-world applications.
This article explores various types of moment connections in steel structures, offering insights on their design, function, advantages, and limitations in resisting both shear and bending forces.
This article delves into the essential components of steel beam design according to the AISC code. It discusses the critical steps, including load determination, section selection, and limit states design, which ensure the proper performance of steel beams.
This article explains various types of simple connections in steel structures, detailing their design, function, advantages, and limitations in transferring shear forces between beams, columns, and girders.
This article presents the design of embedded retaining walls – a wall in which resistance to active lateral earth pressure is mainly resisted by the passive pressure generated at the toe side of the wall.
This article discusses the design of timber connections to Eurocode 5. It contains worked example illustrating the design of screw connections.
This article offers guidance and recommendations on the design of shear connections for composite beams to Eurocode 4
This article offers an overview of the design principles and types of bolted connections and provides two detailed worked examples to illustrate the application of Eurocode 3 in practical design scenarios.
This article presents the design of welded connections in steel structures to Eurocode 3 and a worked example on the subject.