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Looking at your Telephone Contact, I believe you are stationed in India. For any Structural Design, including its analysis and design of structural components, you will need to follow ALL the Indian Standard Codes, as related to Loads, Load-Combinations, Wind-Loads, Seismic Loads, etc. For ALL these ...

So very true! If you study and observe "Nature," it has all the Answers, to Structural Engineering. Look at the coconut palm trees, on sandy soil, swinging with high top load of bunch of heavy full grown coconuts, swinging, during stormy winds too, from a stem, over may be 30-40 Feet High, or a ...

I would tend to concurr with Richard, for saw-cutting the joint, for developing a physical joint width of say 20mm on each side, and filling the same with elastic filler, with low-cost Bitumen, and little higher cost Polyurethene, OR if your Clients can afford, for a long time performance, use filler ...

I do not think that top finish (even though rigid) can be considered toward evaluating Fire Resistance. Secondly, 90 mm thickness for about 2.8 m span is seen as too less, from present and feature deflection parameters. Besides this may not fit in the minimum cover for rebars at bottom and top. ...

Dear Prof Ankur Bhogayata, As you have highlighted, manufactured sand (crushed sand) is almost universally used, in Mumbai, besides "Fly Ash" and other chemical admixtures, in making of concrete, even up to M-50, by RMC Plants in Mumbai (India),. This so called manufactured sand, at times is seen ...