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Boundary Zones or Boundary Elements Another category in a shear wall or wall design is to determine the area of boundary zones or boundary element. Boundary Zones which is also known as Boundary Element is a portion along…
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Most of the time, we don’t often pay attention to the piles after it is being cast. But, just like any other structural members, they are also prone to structural failures and sometimes noticing these damages is already…
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Retaining Wall A retaining wall is provided when there is a need to support an excavated area or a lower area of at least 1 or 1.2 meters or more from an elevated part of the soil. It…
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Are you familiar with green concrete? Why it is called green concrete and is it literally means green in appearance? Those are few of the many questions that linger our mind on the first time we heard…
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Just like the reinforcement chairs as discussed in the previous article, the concrete spacer plays a vital role as well to keep and maintained the standard concrete cover required whether in beams, columns, wall, and slabs. We all…
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During site construction, Reinforcement Chair or sometimes called as Rebar Spacer, Steel Chair or simply Chair is commonly seen in raft or mat foundations. This is commonly shaped as Z or inverted U type reinforcement to evenly separate…
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Throughout the life of a building structure, we can’t avoid structural changes. Even if the structure is already built, “revisions” as we call during site construction, may still occur. Sometimes these changes may vary accordingly, it can…
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Every engineer is familiar with the openings in a slab. We all know that opening in slabs cannot be avoided in site construction as it has a purpose. In fact, in the early stages of planning, this is…
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This article tackles the design consideration of anchoring to concrete under shear loadings. This is the part two of the previous article, Anchoring to Concrete: Tensile Loadings. As summarized in the previous article, the Strength design of anchors shall be…
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