Civil Engineering: 2012

Saturday, August 25, 2012

civil engineering discipline


Civil Engineering

Now the era has come when civil engineering,the oldest engineering branch of world(especially in India) had been grown to its fully exposure.I'm being a student of 3rd year civil engineering when opted to civil engineering was in the severe fever that if I selected a wrong stream for my carrier.But now these days I'm very much satisfied regarding my decision.Today many students are opting this field as their carrier.I study in a college named R.I.T.M. College. It was the first college in that zone who got certification from A.I.C.T.E to run civil engineering as their newest stream and excel college's future.Now almost all the colleges have got certification to run civil engineering.
                                                       civil engineering discipline

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

FOUNDATION

Foundation :-Foundation is the lowest part of a structure which provides a base for the super-structure(building).In other words,it is the artificial arrangement to transmit the loads of the structure like piles, raft, grillage, etc. to the soil below.

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Types Of Foundations :- Basically there are two types of foundations as under:-

Shallow Foundation
Deep Foundation

Shallow Foundation

When the foundation is placed immediately beneath the lowest part of the super structure,it is termed as shallow foundation.The object of this type of foundation is to distribute the structural loads over a wide horizontal area at shallow depth below the ground level.

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Deep Foundation

When the strata of good bearing capacity is not available near the ground,the foundation of the structure has to be taken deep with the purpose of attaining a bearing capacity of soil which is suitable in all respects.