Essays on Civil engineering Page 2

This article provides a thorough introduction to smart materials, encompassing their definition and various types. It discusses several examples of smart materials like piezoelectric materials, magneto-rheostatic materials, electro-rheostatic materials, and shape memory alloys. Additionally, it emphasizes the wide range of smart material options available and ongoing research aimed at creating new ones. The article also…

JACK PILE UNDERPINNING This method can be used when the depth of suitable bearing capacity subsoil is too deep to make traditional underpinning uneconomic. Jack pile underpinning is quiet, vibration free and flexible since the pile depth can be adjusted to suit subsoil conditions encountered. The existing foundations must be in a good condition since…

Introduction Statics is a branch of Mechanics that studies the forces and their effects in rigid bodies in balance. Just like humans, objects and buildings need a skeleton too. This is known as the structure. Bridges, amusement parks, chairs, and many other objects that surround us, have structures, if they didn’t they wouldn’t be able…

The aim of this investigation was to find the stress intensity that was present when a finite analysis of a cracked plate was conducted. The results that were gained from using the software, ANSYS, were verified with theoretical hand calculations. The stress intensity (KI) was found to be 0.42 Pam1/2 using the finite element analysis…