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Standard is a set of rules based on some principle or procedure to perform task, design, and others. IS codes for civil engineering free download pdf are given below. Standards also include technical Specification and sometimes restricts to be on …
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The water tank is the container to store water for purposes of distribution, irrigation, fire extinguish, or future use. Water can be of any shape and size as per requirement. The design of circular water tank is necessary for the …
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What is a shear wall? Shear wall is the vertical structural components generally made up of reinforced concrete with the purpose of resisting and transferring both lateral and gravity (vertical)loads. Thus these walls are generally designed in order to make …
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What is Light weight Concrete? Lightweight concrete mix is those concrete that have low specific gravity compared to the other concrete due to the presence of minute voids or air entrainment. The void can be created either as in form …
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Stairs are the structural comments containing a series of steps by means of which one can easily access different floors of the building. Stairs are medium for mobility over the entire floors of buildings. The different parts of stairs are …
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Whats a floating foundation? A foundation is considered to be floating when the total weight of the building structure (super and substructure) is approximately equal to the weight of the soil and water removed from the site before the construction …
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What is characteristic strength of concrete? The characteristic strength of concrete is the definite theoretical value of the material in which, when the material has actually tested the probability of getting higher results higher than that value is 95% or …
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Development length is the length of steel bars that should be embedded into the concrete of other members to make the strong bond between members like column, beam, slab, etc. The development length formula of steel is given below. For …
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Self compacting concrete(SCC), also known as self-consolidating concrete, is a special concrete mix exhibiting high flowability, good segregation resistance, and ability to self-compact and consolidate under its own weight without application of any means of mechanical vibration and tamping. In …
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Joints in construction are the separation or discontinuity created in concrete or sometimes steel structures in order to neglect the effect of contraction, expansion, movement, and settlement in structure with a change in the external environment. These joints are left …
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