What is Development Length for Steel in Reinforced Concrete?
Development length can be defined as a length of reinforcing bars into embedment of concrete…
Year: 2020
What Is Nailing Concrete?
Nailing concrete has a property of holding nail firmly and it is achieved by including…
What is Transverse beam? It’s Function in Combined Footing.
The traditional design method for foundation supporting multiple columns is based on beam design principle….
Loading Rate and Strength of Concrete
In general, strength of concrete means compressive strength and flexure strength. In both cases, load…
What is Dewatering of Soil? Objectives and Techniques of Dewatering
In general, dewatering means modification of ground by redirecting seepages, lowering the ground water table…
What is the Mechanism of Drying Shrinkage of Concrete?
When water is withdrawn from concrete mass stored in the unsaturated air, drying shrinkage is…
Construction Sequence of Raft or Mat Foundation
Site selection, geotechnical investigation and structural analysis and proportioning of raft or mat foundation are…
What is Heaved Pile in Pile Foundation Construction?
Have you heard piles are sometimes heaved? Is this not strange that pile can lift…
Buckling of Piles in Foundation on Liquefiable Soils
In the last post we have discussed about assumption about piles as free standing columns….
What is Response Spectrum in Earthquake Analysis?
We know earthquake forces shake building foundation back-forth which is finally resisted by inertia forces…