What is Steel Piling? What is the installation procedure?

shahanth

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• Apr 13th, 2013

Steel piles can be driven with very high capacity driving tools, depending on the site conditions. Hydraulic impact hammers are commonly used, but in many countries, where environmental aspects are of...

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Explain DMC method of Pile Foundation.

ramthoke

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• Nov 28th, 2009

When depth of foundation is above 2.5 m then we prefer pile foundation by driving augor in the soil making bore.

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What is SBC Value?

yamini.kiranmayi

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• Jun 26th, 2009

SBC is the safe bearing capacity of a soil, beyond this value if soil is loaded, it will fail to bear the load applied on it and will fail. Its value can be found out by standard penetration test, plate load test or cone penetration test.

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How are angles and angle pairs used in civil engineering?

sappy_shail

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• Nov 23rd, 2009

Angles can be used to make trusses, hold fasts etc and angle pairs for making 'T' section or square hollow section. However you can use it with your ingenuity for many things viz chairs, end stubs to reduse Anchorage length, door frame, shutterings, in lap weldings, make sharp edges.

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What are Inverted Beams and Hidden Beams ?

Balbir Singh

• May 29th, 2014

During construction of ground slab specially in foundation the beam are design as inverted beam and in the floor slab where their is no provision of beam and wall are to raised on the slab a provision of hidden beam is given which is embedded in the slab itself

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Why we provide distribution steel in one way slab?
What is role of distribution steel in one way slab?

vipkolon

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• May 24th, 2010

Distribution steel is provided for countering stresses generated due to change in temperature and shrinkage in concrete (caused due to hydration reaction) in lateral direction. Absence of same will generate stresses and consequently cracks.

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What is honeycomb? Why it is formed into the concrete?

rajakamal

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• May 16th, 2010

It is a deformation due to improper compaction of concrete and will lead to air voids inside concrete.

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How can you physically identify the grade of cement after casting?

Munna

• Aug 21st, 2015

Non-destructive test like rebound hammer and ultrasonic pulse velocity test

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What are the types of drawings? (like submission drawing, working drawings, etc)What are the difference between them?

deepak

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• Jul 24th, 2010

There are following types of drawings1 Key plan2 Layout plan3 Structural Drawing4 Submission Drawings5 Working Drawings?

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How are precast concrete connections constructed?

vijAy

• Apr 14th, 2015

Precast beam keep on columns and alignment properly and casted it. Beam steel welded with column steel

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After tiling flooring had been done, sometimes the tiles get broken with a sudden blasting after a considerable period of time. What is the reason behind this?

saranya48

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• Aug 20th, 2010

The yield strength is very low for tiles.

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How can you physically identify the grade of cement after casting?

sujeeth bennuri

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• Aug 2nd, 2010

It is identified by its sedimentation strength.

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When do we use inverted beams in slabs? Why

Rmagdum

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• Jan 18th, 2011

Inverted cantilivers are used for very large cantilevers so as to use the flange for compression....

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What is the TRIMEX or TRIMAXE FLOORING?

ZAKIR

• Oct 20th, 2011

It is the process done by machinery first we put the concrete in level by Skid vibrator, Second ; remove the excess water from concrete and Third finish the surface by power disc trovel .

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How cube test is done?

Charles Cariaga

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• Mar 25th, 2011

Cube test is done by using a calibrated compression machine, usually  by independent or third party or approved testing laboratory.

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Ashokkumar

• Aug 6th, 2011

In case of getting less clearance height between floor & ceiling inverted beams are recommended also will reduce considerable amount of cost in wall construction's.

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Scofield

• Aug 11th, 2011

CBR test for determining the bearing strength of the base layer.

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I would like to know in detail about the latest methods to detect cracks(micro cracks) in the building, especially the non destructive methods.

shahanth

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• Mar 16th, 2013

Methods to detect cracks in concrete are NEWS(Nonlinear Elastic Wave Spectroscopy), Template Matching , percolation algorithm method, Hessian-Driven Percolation methods..

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For economical purpose we are using open graded aggregate .... how it is economical.... and are there any problems in using this??

suji

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• Mar 7th, 2012

Open graded aggregate provides environmental benefits like ....
1.Noise reduction.
2.Durability for new construction or asphalt overlays.
3.Skid resistance.
and also Cost reduction compared to barriers.

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Shanthi

• Nov 24th, 2011

Durability of concrete is determined by using compression testing machine

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