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What is Civil Engineering?
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways. In one word Civil Engineering is civilization way of the world. Civil engineering is…
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Why is Development length provided in an RCC structure?
Most simple example to explain the concept the development. Take your first finger and grab it in the palm of your other hand. Now pull the finger applying as much force as you can. At a certain limit the finder will slip and the contact between the finger and the palm will break. But suppose…
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Why are Bridges still made with simple supports instead of fixed supports?
There are several reasons, Fixed supports prevent both horizontal and verticle displacements. This will cause the development of thermal stress during temperature fluctuation. Fixed supports are very difficult to implement(and maintain) from a practical point of view. This can cause disaster if a fixed supported end becomes simply supported over time due to some joint…