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Steel designHow to apply the effective length of a member in the design process?
What is the importance of employing Lx, Ly & Lz for a member during the design stage? Every structural or civil engineer
Steel designWhy the shape “TRIANGLE” is widely used in structural engineering?
Most of the structures that we know comprise of this particular shape “triangle” in any one of its structural systems. What is
Loads & codesLoad Path in Steel Structures – Why it is important?
What happens to the load applied to a structure? Whatever the load which acts on the structure ultimately tries to reach the
How Load Position would affect the members bending capacity – “Bend the RULER”
Why it is easy to bend material in the middle rather than at the ends? In order to understand the concept, one
Steel designWhy do we calculate STRESS, when we have FORCES?
In the structural analysis classroom of our engineering degree, we are taught how to determine the internal forces (Axial force, Bending Moment
Steel designWhy Bolt and not Weld? Why Weld and not Bolt?
As a practicing design engineer, during the initial stage of the career, each and every one of us would be subjected to
Steel designShifting the position of a single rod matter a lot in design…
If you are a professional design engineer, then most probably you would have heard about this particular collapse dated a few decades
Steel designBending Strength of the Laterally Supported Beam
Laterally Supported Beam – In general, a beam that does not move nor rotate laterally is termed as “Laterally Supported Beams”. This
Steel designWhat is so intriguing about Mono-pole Traffic Signboard? – Bi-Axial Bending…
When it comes to structural behaviour, the technical terms might sound a bit complicated, but actual behaviour is NOT. I am moving forward with