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What are the key design factor in IBS and how the design factor deter the usage of IBS?
02 February 2017 5,962 1 View
I am new to my Knowledge management position and I would like to rework the company's KM. Please help me with any documents or articles that can give me direction of how to tackle KM for engineers.
01 January 2017 496 11 View
1- From a structural point of view, is it possible to slightly increase the weight of the glass infill in a metal curtain wall panel if the resulted load would still be well below the designed...
01 January 2017 9,334 7 View
I am working on the rehabilitation of a concrete building. We get some cores from the columns and the results shows that some of them have f'c equal to 8Mpa. Can we increase the f'c to 24Mpa only...
22 December 2016 9,139 16 View
I am trying to model early-age concrete temperature modelling in ABAQUS. The issue I have here is after 24 hrs, the formwork is removed and after a gap of 1 hr, insulation is added in place of the...
13 December 2016 1,764 3 View
Hi all, Is there anyway to carry out POA (nonlinear static analysis) in SAP2000 for shell elements? I know the procedure for frame elements but what about for case of shell elements such as slab...
12 December 2016 1,091 6 View
I Know job titles differs to the company to company, generally what we can find in companies, and which level of management it lies. Example construction engineer, he comes under middle-level...
12 December 2016 1,039 0 View
The modeling is done on sap2000!
23 November 2016 10,072 4 View
11 November 2016 4,602 5 View
Similar to CONQUAS (Singapore) and PASS (HK), Is there any other quality assessement models available in the practice or in the literature domain?. Thanks Marimuthu K
27 October 2016 6,850 4 View
10 October 2016 1,291 5 View
The Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is designed for two levels of earthquake viz., Operating Basis Earthquake (OBE) and Safe Shutdown Earthquake (SSE). The OBE (S1) level ground motion corresponds to...
09 September 2016 2,220 3 View
I am working on a zero waste project and we are looking into estimating how much waste our project will generate, but have not had a project similar enough to compare to, is there a method to...
07 July 2016 1,615 8 View
I have a mix design of cement flyash blend. After doing rietveld refinement I have found that the ettringite percentage that was 1.57% at 7 days reduced to 0.85% at 28days. The gypsum content that...
07 July 2016 855 6 View
Would confining strain gauges inside a PVC cylinder (isolated from the concrete) work? EDIT 1 : Thanks a lot, for the answers. In the absence of any external load, If one can measure the strains...
06 June 2016 2,958 4 View
how can we get the unbalanced moment if we have the moment for the column at section above level of slab and at the section just below the level of the slab ? What is the sign rule when taking the...
06 June 2016 8,340 3 View
I'd like to analyze a cabled truss structure with opensees which includes both bar and cable elements. As I know bar elements are under tension and compression but cable materials are just under...
05 May 2016 6,974 4 View
I am doing rietveld refinement of my hydrated cement paste samples and while varying various parameters I even sometime use flat plate absorption. That option brings about significant changes in...
05 May 2016 2,150 3 View
How can designers use BIM(Building Information Modeling) technology to capture Tacit knowledge in construction projects?
05 May 2016 4,289 4 View
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Generally, what is the early strength requirement (in MPa) for concrete in practical construction, so that the formwork can be removed? Is this mentioned in any US or British standards? Thanks.
04 April 2016 6,083 4 View
I am interested in constructing some bench scale filtration columns for a future project with ports at various levels. I am wanting to know what materials you would suggest for the items listed...
04 April 2016 2,425 1 View
What are the Threats that hinder the investments in the Construction sector in the Egyptian Sector, Although it considered one of the largest markets in Egypt? and How many Small and medium sized...
29 March 2016 3,854 2 View
Diagrid structues,Tall buildings
16 March 2016 6,938 3 View