The principle behind Fractal Robots is very simple. You take some cubic bricks made of metals and plastics, motorize them, put some electronics inside them and cont...
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Long Term Evolution (LTE) Release 8 provides high peak data rates of 300 Mb/s on the downlink and 75 Mb/s on the uplink for a 20 MHz bandwidth, and al...
The frequency response of the op-amp is pretty straight forward. Basically, as the operating frequency of the op-amp increases, the voltage gain decreases. Actually, it is only after the cutoff freque...
The main canal takes its supplies directly from the river through the head regulator and acts as a feeder canal supplying water to branch canals and major distributaries. Usually, direct irrigation is...
GRAVITY DAMS: These dams are heavy and massive wall-like structures of concrete in which the whole weight acts vertically downwards n Bhakra Dam is the highest Concrete Gravity dam in Asia and Seco...
Fiber Reinforced Concrete can be defined as a composite material consisting of mixtures of cement, mortar or concrete and discontinuous, discrete, uniformly dispersed suitable fibers. Continuous meshe...
Key Words: Green Building, Sustainable Development, Designing, Construction, Economical Shelter is one of the most important things which is essential for human beings. As the civilization developed c...
In many regions of the world, clean drinking water is not always available and this is only possible with tremendous investment costs and expenditure. Rainwater is a free source and relatively clea...
Cracks result in when applied forces are greater than those which the building or its part can withstand. These forces may have emerged externally to the building or internally within the building or...
Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more or less ignored as impractical, complicated, or too expensive. Incorporating the sun’s energy into...
Suppose while working as a Geotechnical Engineer, we encounter the following situation: a three-storied office building with load bearing walls has to be constructed. At the site, loosely dumped mater...
Pile foundations consist of piles that are dug into soil till a layer of stable soil is reached. Pile foundations transfer building load to the bearing ground wi...
Shear walls are vertical elements of the horizontal force resisting system. Shear walls are constructed to counter the effects of lateral load acting on a structure. In residential construction, shear...
Nanotechnology is one of the most active research areas that encompass a number of disciplines including civil engineering and construction materials. Nano construction; Traditionally, nanotechnolo...
Suspension bridge is most commonly built to span across water body. The design of a suspension bridge is simple and straight forward, and takes advantage of several techniques to distribute the weight of the bridge safely and evenly.
Glass fiber–reinforced concrete (GRC) consists basically of a cementitious matrix composed of cement, sand, water, and admixtures, in which shortlength glass fib...
Nanotechnology is one of the most active research areas which has wide applications in almost all the fields. As concrete is most usable material in construction industry it’s been required to imp...
Silica fume is a by-product from electric arc furnaces used in the manufacture of silicon metal of silicon alloys. The material, which contains more than 80% silica in the form of extremely fine parti...
The disposal of waste tyres is becoming a major waste management problem in the UK. It is estimated that 37 million car and truck tyres are being discarded annually and this number is set to increase,...
Evapotranspiration is a collective term that includes all processes by which water at the earth’s surface is converted to water vapor. It includes evaporation from the plant canopy, transpiration, s...