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Teaching Students How to Evaluate the Reasonableness of Structural Analysis Results
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Junior engineers are increasingly placing blind trust in computer generated structural analysis results, but the evaluation skills used by experienced engineers must have been learned at some point. Therefore, this study ...
How Structural Engineers Find Errors in Analysis and Design Results
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Errors in structural analysis and design are inevitable, but finding them early in the design process saves time and money. Knowledge of the broad causes of errors and how experienced engineers identify the presence of ...
Effects of Induced Vibrations on Early Age Concrete
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The purpose of this investigation was to conduct a laboratory test program on how much induced vibrations on concrete during the period between initial set and final set affect the attainable strength of concrete. To achieve ...
Civil Engineering Volunteerism: Assisting Developing Countries Stem the Tide of Economic Migration
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ...