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Myself Preet Chovatiya and I am doing M.E in Structure Engineering from SCET College Surat. I am also doing some small house and building design aside with my study. I am running one blog on education niche. I... (More)
Shear keys are designed and provided in various structures to provide resistance against lateral loads like earthquake loads and sliding forces in various structures such as bridges, retaining walls, the basement of residential buildings, precast buildings and culverts, masonry walls... (More)
It is a special structure in beams. In the deep beam, the depth of the beam is greater than eff. span. The assumptions of the normal beam are not applicable in a deep beam. As the... (More)
Hi sir, I am a intern student at AFCON. and also doing final year degree from Maharashtra.
Basically, When we talk about water content than the water content is determined by Karl Fischer titration method.
Water content basically deals with the water that is moisture only.
LOE stands for loss in... (More)
Mechanism of rotating Tower is very interesting to understand.
1)The whole steel structure is constructed with reference to Central Core and highly reinforced Foundation.
2)Driving system- every flower in the rotating Tower... (More)
Silt is composed of fine-grained clay in usual parlance. However, note the Wiki comment:
Though silt and clay are classified as fine soils, they have some differences between them. – Clay particles are very smaller in size compared to silt... (More)
There is no such laptop made specially for any kind of departments.
It all depends on specifications of the laptop.
Hi, determination of labour and material quantity of any brickwork or masonry is called a rate analysis.
In simple words, rate analysis is a calculation of the stones per cubic feet. In this case, generally dressed stones are used.
2stones/feet^2... (More)
It depends on how you are using those two materials.
Concrete has incredible compressive strength but it has very little to no ductility or flexibility. Concrete, done correctly, continues to get harder with time, up to about one hundred years.... (More)
MB (measurement bMB (measurement book)
It is the book of measurement in wich govt. Authorities or organizations can take the actual measurement of works completed by the contractor as per BOQ (Book of Quantities).
Importance of MB
1. After the... (More)
1 JMC Projects India Limited
2 NCC
3 Reliance Infrastructure Limited
4 Dilip Buildcon
5 Tata Projects Limited
6 Jaiprakash Associates Limited
7 Afcons Infrastructure Limited
8 Hindustan Construction Company
9 Punj Lloyd Limited
10 Housing & Urban Development Corporation... (More)
The term micro cracking refers to very small cracks that form in concrete but are not visible to the naked eye. Some microcracking occurs as a natural part of the cement hydration process, but it also occurs as compressive loads... (More)
importance of proctor compaction test
In... (More)
This will vary person to person and how you are will directly refelct your way of Introduction.
Make sure you keep it simple and crisp .
I follow these steps.
Anchor bars are the bars which are given on compression side to hold the stirrups or lateral reinforcements and the main bars.
Thus when it comes to backfill, it refers to the dirt behind the wall. In order to provide proper drainage, atleast 12 inches of granular backfill (gravel or a similar aggregate) should be installed directly behind the wall. Compacted native... (More)
The main reason why we don’t use aluminum in reinforced concrete structure is because of its property of coefficient of thermal expansion.
The co efficient of thermal expansion for various materials are as follows
The test conducted on fly ash prior to being used as replacement for cement are-
To know more about the detail in types of... (More)
Here, I will be discussing some popular innovative building blocks used in building specially in architectural point of view. They are listed below;
1) Light transmitting concrete block (LTC) :
Speciality of light transmitting concrete are given below;
