High-rise buildings have unique challenges related to fire protection such as longer egress times and distance, evacuation strategies, fire department accessibility, smoke movement and fire control. The numbers of persons living on high-rise buildings are high compared to low-rise buildings, ...
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Concept of Retaining Walls Design -Calculation of Earth Pressure
There different types of retaining walls and their design concept starts with calculation of earth pressures. Earth pressure calculation on retaining walls depends on the depth, pore water pressure and surcharge on retaining walls. Cantilever Retaining Walls: (a) Cantilever retaining ...
Concrete Thin Shell Structure Types and Forms
What is concrete thin shell structure? Concrete thin shell structure is a three-dimensional spatial structure that constructed from one or more curved slabs or folded plates. The thicknesses of curved slab and folded plates are small compared to their other ...
Balanced Cantilever Method of Bridge Construction
What is balanced Cantilever method of Bridge Construction? The balanced cantilever method of bridge construction used for bridges with few spans ranging from 50 to 250m. The bridge can be either cast-in-place or precast. Moreover, the basic concept of balanced ...
Proportioning of Reinforced Concrete Retaining Wall
Proportioning of reinforced concrete retaining wall elements such as stem, base slab, toe slab and heel slab is important to make the design economical.
Principles of Retaining Wall Design
There various parts of a retaining wall and design principles of these retaining wall components based on different factors and material and methods of construction are discussed. Any wall that sustains significant lateral soil pressure is a retaining wall. However, ...
STEPS IN ANALYSING A BRIDGE
STEPS IN ANALYSING A BRIDGE The analytical process for structure of bridges can be broken down to six main steps: Idealise the structure Form a model Idealise the loading in a form suitable for the model Solve the resulting equation ...
Different Methods of Bridge Construction and their Selection
Different Methods of Bridge Construction Described below are the different methods employed in the construction of bridges. 1. Cast-in-situ Method of Bridge Construction This method is a flexible method of bridge construction where complex and unusual geometrical shapes of dams ...