Crack Width Calculation Spreadsheet

 Crack Width Calculation Spreadsheet 

This excel sheet calculates crack width. Crack width calculation is one of the serviceability requirements in the structural concrete elements. The occurrence of cracks in reinforced concrete elements is expected under service loads, due to the low tensile strength of concrete. Control of cracking is important for obtaining an acceptable appearance and for the long-term durability of concrete structures, especially those subjected to aggressive environments.
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Reinforced Concrete Structures Analysis and Design

Reinforced Concrete Structures Analysis and Design 

David A Fanella

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The second edition of this publication is based on the provisions of the 2015 edition of the International Building Code. That document references ACI 318-14, Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary, for the design of reinforced concrete structures. A major structural reorganization occurred in going from the 2011 edition to the 2014 edition of ACI 318, the first such reorganization since 1971. In short, requirements in ACI 318-14 are organized mainly by member type (one-way slabs, beams, two-way slabs, columns, etc.), which is a major change of how the document was organized in earlier editions. It was initially anticipated that the number of technical changes to ACI 318-14 would be kept to a minimum because of the effort that would be needed in the reorganization of the document. However, it did not end up that way, and some major revisions were made to the provisions themselves.










Content :
  • Introduction
  • Materials
  • General Considerations for Analysis and Design
  • General Requirements for Strength and Serviceability
  • General Principles of the Strength Design Method
  • Beams and One-Way Slabs
  • Two-Way Slabs
  • Columns
  • Walls
  • Foundations
  • Design and Detailing for Earthquake Effects
  • Steel Reinforcement Information
  • Critical Section Properties for Two-Way Shear


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Structural Steel Design, Fifth Edition

Structural Steel Design, Fifth Edition 

Jack C. McCormac

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The structural design of buildings, whether of structural steel or reinforced concrete, requires the determination of the overall proportions and dimensions of the supporting framework and the selection of the cross sections of individual members. In most cases the functional design, including the establishment of the number of stories and the floor plan, will have been done by an architect, and the structural engineer must work within the constraints imposed by this design. Ideally, the engineer and architect will collaborate throughout the design process to complete the project in an efficient manner. In effect, however, the design can be summed up as follows: The architect decides how the building should look; the engineer must make sure that it doesn’t fall down. Although this distinction is an oversimplification, it affirms the first priority of the structural engineer: safety.








Content :
  • Introduction to Structural Steel Design
  • Specifications, Loads, and Methods of Design 
  • Analysis of Tension Members
  • Introduction to Axially Loaded Compression Members
  • Design of Axially Loaded Compression Members
  • Design of Axially Loaded Compression Members (Continued) and Column Base Plates
  • Introduction to Beams
  • Design of Beams for Moments
  • Design of Beams–Miscellaneous Topics (Shear, Deflection, etc.)
  • Bending and Axial Force
  • Bolted Connections
  • Eccentrically Loaded Bolted Connections and Historical Notes on Rivets
  • Welded Connections
  • Building Connections 
  • Composite Beams
  • Composite Columns 
  • Cover-Plated Beams and Built-up Girders
  • Design of Steel Buildings


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Practical Civil Engineering

Practical Civil Engineering 

P.K. Jayasree

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The engineering discipline is a vast area that offers unlimited specialization. It can be defined as the systematic presentation of scientific principles employed for the advantage of the public. It is the career in which the understanding of mathematics and natural sciences, achieved by learning, understanding, and rehearsal, is supported by wisdom to acquire methods to consume the material and forces of the environment for the utility of society in a cautious way. The conventional divisions of engineering are civil, mechanical,  and electrical engineering. Other than these basic divisions, there are numerous other branches. To name a few, computer engineering, aeronautical engineering, industrial engineering, 
chemical engineering, marine engineering, automobile engineering, polymer engineering, textile engineering, ceramic engineering, and so on.




Content :
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Civil Engineering
  • Chapter 2 Units, Measurements, and Symbols
  • Chapter 3 Preliminary Mathematics
  • Chapter 4 Engineering Mechanics
  • Chapter 5 Mechanics of Structures and Their Analysis
  • Chapter 6 Principles of Surveying
  • Chapter 7 Building Materials
  • Chapter 8 Building Construction Technology and Management
  • Chapter 9 Concrete Technology
  • Chapter 10 Reinforced Concrete Structures
  • Chapter 11 Steel Structures
  • Chapter 12 Fluid Mechanics


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Building Information Modeling BIM in Current and Future Practice

Building Information Modeling BIM in Current and Future Practice 

Karen M. Kensek

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) is fundamentally transforming modes of design practice and
standards of building design, delivery, and operation. BIM has matured from object-based parametric
modeling developed by innovative software companies and university research programs into suites of
software programs widely used in the architecture, engineering, and construction professions. BIM has
gained rapid acceptance in architecture and engineering schools, the building design and delivery pro-
fessions, the construction and manufacturing industries, and by building owners and managers.
BIM is not CAD. In some respects, BIM is a natural progression in the evolution of computer-
supported practice. However, much more so than CAD, BIM is revolutionizing the way the building
partners practice and document their work, even changing the nature of the design process.




Content :
  • PART 1 Design Thinking and BIM
  • PART 2 BIM Analytics
  • PART 3 Comprehensive BIM
  • PART 4 Reasoning with BIM
  • PART 5 Professional BIM
  • PART 6 BIM Speculation


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What Every Engineer Should Know About Excel

What Every Engineer Should Know About Excel 

Jack P. Holman

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This collection of materials involving operations in Microsoft Excel is intended primarily for engineers,
although many of the displays and topics will be of interest to other readers as well. The procedures have been generated randomly as individual segments, which were distributed to classes as the need arose. They do not take the place of the many excellent books on the subjects of numerical methods, statistics, engineering analysis, or the information that is available through the Help features of the software packages. Some of the suggestions offered will be obvious to an experienced software user but will be less apparent or even eye-opening to others. It is this latter group for whom the collection was assembled. Some of the materials were written for use in classes in engineering laboratories and heat-transfer subjects, so several of the examples are slanted in the direction of these applications. Even so, topics such as solutions to simultaneous linear and nonlinear equations and uses of graphing techniques are pervasive and easily extended to other applications.




Content :
  • Introduction
  • Miscellaneous Operations in Excel and Word
  • Charts and Graphs
  • Line Drawings, Embedded Objects, Equations, and Symbols in Excel
  • Solution of Equations
  • Other Operations
  • Financial Functions and Calculations
  • Optimization Problems
  • Data Management Resources in Excel
  • Office 365 and Integration with Cloud Resources


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Seismic Design for Ordinary Concentrically Braced Frames

Seismic Design for Ordinary Concentrically Braced Frames


Concentrically Braced Frames (CBFs) are a class of structures resisting lateral loads through a vertical concentric truss system, the axes of the members aligning concentrically at the joints. CBFs tend to be efficient in resisting lateral forces because they can provide high strength and stiffness. These characteristics can also result in less favorable seismic responses, such as low drift capacity and higher accelerations. CBFs are common structural steel or composite system in .areas of any seismicity





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Design of Cantilever and Girder Excel Sheet

 Design of Cantilever and Girder Excel Sheet  

Design of Cantilever and Girder Excel Sheet allows you to calculate the loads and straining actions due to different types of load then finally calculate the RFT  for the cantilever and  girder 
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Successful Project Management

Successful Project Management 

Jack Gido,

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Project management is more than merely parceling out work assignments to individuals and hoping that they will somehow accomplish the desired result. In fact, projects that could have been successful often fail because of such take-it-for-granted approaches. Individuals need hard information and real skills to work successfully in a project environment and to accomplish project objectives. Successful Project Management is written to equip its users with both—by explaining concepts and techniques and by using numerous examples to show how they can be skillfully applied. Although the focus of the book is squarely on the practical things readers absolutely need to know to thrive in project environments, the book does not forsake objective learning; it simply challenges readers to think critically about project management principles and to apply them within the context of the real world. We capture lessons learned from years of managing projects, teaching project management, and writing extensively about it




Content :
  • CHAPTER 1 Project Management Concepts
  • CHAPTER 2 Identifying and Selecting Projects
  • CHAPTER 3 Developing Project Proposals
  • CHAPTER 4 Defining Scope, Quality, Responsibility, and Activity Sequence 
  • CHAPTER 5 Developing the Schedule
  • CHAPTER 6 Resource Utilization
  • CHAPTER 7 Determining Costs, Budget, and Earned Value
  • CHAPTER 8 Managing Risk 
  • CHAPTER 9 Closing the Project
  • CHAPTER 10 The Project Manager 
  • CHAPTER 11 The Project Team
  • CHAPTER 12 Project Communication and Documentation 
  • CHAPTER 13 Project Management Organizational Structures


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Advances in Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, and Life-Cycle Performance

Advances in Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, and Life-Cycle Performance 

Paulo J. da Sousa Cruz

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A bridge can have various forms. It can be a girder, a truss, an arch, cable-stayed, or suspended. Even though they may all look very different from each other, each of these bridges is comprised of only three basic structural elements: axial, bending, and curved elements. I call this the ABC of structures. By combining and mixing these three types of basic structural elements, we can create all different types of bridge configurations. For example, a truss bridge consists of mainly axially loaded elements. Bending may exist, but it is secondary. So is a cable-stayed bridge. An arch carries its load with a change of curvature. This is also true in the suspension cable of a suspension bridge. A girder bridge is mainly a bending element. Even though some engineers tend to specify the desired bridge type in relation to bridge spans, in reality, there are no rules dictating what is the best form to satisfy a given function of a bridge. It depends on many variables such as the cost and availability of construction materials, transportation, the skill of labor, aesthetics, and many other reasons.




Content :
  • Keynote Lectures
  • Bridge management systems
  • Reliability analysis and optimal design of deteriorating structural systems
  • Design, operation, and maintenance of high-speed railway bridges
  • Application of structural system identification methods
  • Long-term signal analysis for the existing bridge health monitoring systems
  • Damage assessment – strength and durability
  • Assessment, monitoring, and control of bridge vibrations
  • Seismic and dynamic analysis
  • Assessment of bridge repair and strengthening
  • Handling uncertainty in analysis design
  • Probabilistic characterization and analysis of the properties of  materials used in bridges
  • Politics and perception in life-cycle decisions
  • Safety of medium and long-span bridge superstructures during the erection phases


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Eccentric Shear Connection Analysis Of Bolt Group Spreadsheet

Eccentric Shear Connection Analysis Of Bolt Group Spreadsheet


BoltGroup computes the shear capacity of an eccentrically loaded bolted connection using the LRFD instantaneous center of rotation method. Great tool for design of gusset plates and plate girder bolted splices. The analysis results have been verified with AISC tables. The spreadsheet provides a design summary, detailed results, and fundamental theory and formulas. 




Shear Connection Analysis Of Bolt Group

The bolt cross-sectional area is critical to the prior calculation.  The area of bolt available for use by a shear plane will depend on whether or not the shear plane is in a region of the bolt that is threaded.  If the shear plane is in a region that is threaded then there is less area available to resist the applied shear force.  The AISC specification requires you to determine whether or not threads are included in the shear plane or not when computing the capacity of a bearing type connection.  This is not an issue in slip-critical connections since the force is transferred by friction between the connected members and not by actual shear in the bolt.  We will look at this some more when we start computing actual bolt capacities.


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Civil Engineering Hydraulics: Essential Theory with Worked Examples

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R. E. Featherstone

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The text provides an introduction to the theory of civil engineering hydraulics, backed up with a large number of worked examples and exercise problems, with answers, to help readers assess their understanding of the theory and methods of analysis and design. This revised edition features more information on uniform and non-uniform flow, sluice gates, and some basic culvert flow problems.





Content :
  • Chapter 1. Properties of Fluids.
  • Chapter 2. Fluid Statics.
  • Chapter 3. Fluid Flow Concepts and Measurements.
  • Chapter 4. The flow of Incompressible Fluids in Pipelines.
  • Chapter 5. Pipe Network Analysis.
  • Chapter 6. Pump-pipeline System Analysis and Design.
  • Chapter 7. Boundary Layers on Flat Plates and in Ducts.
  • Chapter 8. Steady Flow in Open Channels.
  • Chapter 9. Dimensional Analysis, Similitude, and Hydraulic Models.
  • Chapter 10. Ideal Fluid Flow and Curvilinear Flow.
  • Chapter 11. Gradually Varied Unsteady Flow from Reservoirs.
  • Chapter 12. Mass Oscillations and Pressure Transients in Pipelines.
  • Chapter 13. Unsteady Flow in Channels.
  • Chapter 14. Uniform Flow in Loose-boundary Channels.
  • Chapter 15. Hydraulic Structures.


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Reinforced Concrete Design: To Eurocode

Reinforced Concrete Design: To Eurocode 

W. H. Mosley

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The purpose of this book is to provide a straightforward introduction to the principles and methods of design for concrete structures. It is directed primarily at students and young engineers who require an understanding of the basic theory and a concise guide to designing procedures. Although the detailed design methods are generally according to European Standards (Eurocodes), much of the theory and practice is of a fundamental nature and should, therefore, be useful to engineers in countries outside Europe. The search for harmonization of Technical Standards across the European Community (EC) has led to the development of a series of these Structural Eurocodes which are the technical documents intended for adoption throughout all the member states. The use of these common standards is intended to lower trade barriers and enable companies to compete on a more equitable basis throughout the EC.




Content :
  • Introduction to design and properties of reinforced concrete
  • Limit state design
  • Analysis of the structure at the ultimate limit state
  • Analysis of the section
  • Shear, bond and torsion
  • Serviceability, durability and stability requirements
  • Design of reinforced concrete beams
  • Design of reinforced concrete slabs
  • Column design
  • Foundations and retaining walls
  • Prestressed concrete
  • Water-retaining structures
  • Composite construction


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