Recent Articles
What is shear force and bending moment?
Shear force Shear force is the force acting on a substance in a direction perpendicular to the extension of the substance, acting in a direction to a planar cross-section of a body. Shear force is the summation of the effect of shear stress over a ...
What is the meaning of the Pre-cambering
Pre-cambering Pre-cambering reduces the deflection under the loads, being one of the requirements of deflection checking. For usual simple supported girders, the problem is relatively simple, more complex is the pre-cambering problem at continuous ...
What is partial release of fixity of beams?
The release is removing the capacity of a certain structural member to support forces like bending moment, torsion (more of torsion in the next posts) axial and shear forces. But most often release means release of the bending moment. Another ...
What are shoring piles?
Shoring is used to support a structure to prevent a collapse. The most common shoring techniques that we encountered are during the early stage of construction which is an excavation. Shoring is intended to support a deep excavation to prevent the ...
What is stiffness modifiers?
Shell or area element has two types of stiffnesses i.e. in-plane stiffness refers to f11, f22 and f12 and out-of-plane stiffness refers to m11, m22 and m12. Refer to the below Figure which shows the direction of local axes and their corresponding ...