What is the reason of collapse of water tank shown in the attached you tube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEkC_JbTsQ

03 April 2017 1,021 2 View

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02 March 2017 8,545 19 View

Why do BS8007 specify the allowable crack width of water retaining structure as 0.2mm for severe or very severe exposure?

Why 0.2 mm crack width?

02 March 2017 9,166 3 View

Which type of multiple-cell box girder is better, cells connected by top flanges or cells connected both by top and bottom flanges?

How we can design box girder bridge?

02 March 2017 9,977 3 View

What is the effect of rusting on steel reinforcement?

How does rust affect on the bonding between steel bars and concret?

02 March 2017 3,267 10 View

What is the difference between working stress approach and limit state approach?

02 March 2017 415 2 View

It is not necessary to design nominal reinforcement to piles. Is it true?

Can we use same code provisions of columns for piles?

02 March 2017 7,705 3 View

In carrying out compression test for concrete, should test cubes or test cylinders be adopted?

Relation between cubes and cylinder

02 March 2017 5,645 4 View

If concrete compression test fails, should Schmidt hammer test be adopted as an alternative test to prove the concrete strength?

Non destructive tests

02 March 2017 5,232 31 View

What is the meaning of P-delta analysis?

Some codes provisions refer to this type of analysis.

02 March 2017 8,549 5 View

What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View

What is Flat Lens Antenna?

28 February 2021 5,433 3 View

How can we simulate an hyperelastic-viscoelastic behavor with Ansys APDL?

I am working on modeling and simulation of biomecanical material behaviour, I have succeded on simulating skin using anisotropic hyperelastic material, on APDL and in our lab's finite element...

28 February 2021 552 3 View

Compact antenna for the frequency range 1 MHz-5 MHz?

Hello everybody! I have a problem with developing a compact antenna for the 1MHz-5MHz frequency range. Tell me what type of antenna can be used and what books and articles to read to perform this...

27 February 2021 7,710 4 View

How to find the right number of integration points in second order 3d finite elements?

I am familiar with finite element simulations and numerical schemes like the Gauss Legendre quadrature. I also know that the Gauss integration yields exact values for polynomials up to degree 2n-1...

27 February 2021 6,818 3 View

High aspect ratio hexahedral mesh optimization solver?

I am interested in evaluating mesh optimization solvers that converge to high aspect ratio unstructured hexahedral grids. In other words, I am interested in a solver that optimizes warpage,...

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

How to add missing citation?

Dear colleagues, I have found that many authors have a concern regarding their missing citation in RG because often citation in RG is lower than google scholars. I also missed some citation...

26 February 2021 928 6 View

What could be the reason for not having further low chi square value (better agreement) in my refinement result?

I have tried every combination of parameter changes and after that i have a poor chi square value. I can't get it lower any further. I know there have been a lot of discussion about Rietveld...

26 February 2021 8,480 3 View