STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FORUM OF INDIA [SEFI]

Dear Abhio,

Thank you for your request. The technical discussion meets close to 'dead end' by the reasoning provided by Prabhakar Sir.

I would like to add - absence of plan truss, which might be ...

It was due to 'growing population' - as told by moral and technical experts of nation.

And as population itself is an act of god; the experts may come to conclusion that the failure was also an a ...

Dear Jayakumar,

would the load transfer/distribution from shear walls to columns be affected by the post tensioning behaviour of the 3.3m thick transfer slab as opposed to conventional reinforcemen ...

This reply valid only on the basis of Ref: IS 1893 (Part 1) : 2002

Cl. 7.10.3 reads . .

" . . after carrying out earthquake analysis, neglecting the effect of infill walls in other storey ...

Disheartening to find another fizzled out post on regulating the profession.

Uniform self-regulation is out of question in India due to some of the points below:

1) India didn't start with like ...

hahaha . . . , jobs for indian structural engineers as pickup drivers in europe . . . hahaha . . . . not bad . . . . only the education of the author of the post can have the cheek to approach an en ...

Thankyou Er. Vegad. I also learnt that providing pedestal to the column also would help in overcoming the excessive stressed columns.

Best Regards
R.Udayakumar.

So you eventually increased the ...

Dear Salman,

This . . .

"it does not mean that if you are good in using structural software's , you have good knowledge in basic concepts"

. . cannot be generalized if your basics ...

Dear Salman,

You are proceeding in correct way. Dive in a practicing engineers office and get in the game.

There are two advantages of masters degree; first you get to know the subject in resear ...

Dear Engr. UdayaKumar,

Case I

1) Try, increasing the strength of the material, or use an entirely different and stronger material.
2) Clear span/ length.

Case II

1) Try accounting 'all ac ...