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A beam resting on supports at each end trends to bend under its own weight and under applied loading. This causes compression along the top

Climate change is the greatest threat New York City faces today In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, flooding 17% of the city

Mauvoisin Dam provides a hydraulic head of 482 m (1,581 ft) to the Fionnay generating station, which can produce 138 MW...

The Top 225 firms generated $64.59 billion - 💰 in design revenue in 2017 from projects outside their home countries, up just 0.7% from $64.

A hydraulic jump is a phenomenon that is frequently observed in open channels such as rivers, canals, spillways and weirs and is engineered

The New Safe Confinement will prevent the release of contaminated material from the present shelter and at the same time protect the area

The construction sector is one of the largest in the world economy, with about $10 trillion spent on construction-related goods and services

Engineers, Architects and Urban designers should come together to tackle the issues concerning social distancing in public spaces.

Buckling is one of the major causes of failures in structures and particularly in slender columns. The experiment showed the linearity of..

Fluid Mechanics Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids. Civil engineers use fluid mechanics...

Rocks descriptions are made by examination of samples recovered from boreholes or from material that is found on the side .

Materials processing, the series of operations that transforms industrial materials from a raw-material state into finished parts or...

Guest Blog Post - by Tyler Ley's Overview of the ATC If you’ve heard me talk recently, you have probably heard me mention the ATC, or the...

How a tied-arch Work? Thrust arches rely on horizontal restraint from the foundations. The vertical and horizontal reactions resolve into...

What Uplift pressure means? An uplift pressure is any pressure exerted beneath a structure (e.g. A retaining wall) that has the potential...

General Informationℹ️ Location: East Third Ring Road Guanghua Road Beijing, China Construction dates: 1 June 2004 - 16 May 2012 Floor...

The Approval In Principle (AIP) document outlines the concept for the design of the structure. This will be used for most highway...

The order of events in the Bridge's collapse Around 11.00 am that morning the Section Engineer contacted Jack Hindshaw, the Resident...

Quick FACTS 🧾 The roof of the new Copenhagen Opera House is one of the largest canopy roof structures in the world. With a plan...

Definition 🧾: A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a...

Quick FACTS The Atomium consists of 9 spheres, representing an iron crystal magnified 150 billion times. The structure is 102 metres...