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Structural
Engineer Newsletter Issue#3
Available by
TheCivilEngineer.org - Center for Integrating Information on Civil
Engineering
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September 2007
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 Greetings,
We are pleased to publish the 3rd
issue of the Structural Engineer Newsletter. Our website is continuously
updated to provide you with the most interesting resources in Structural
Engineering. Our goal is to publish this newsletter every month.
As always, we invite our visitors to contribute to the website by sending
us information, and resources in Structural Engineering. We would also
like to thank Professor Mohan Gupta, for his unique contributions to the
development of the Structural Engineer website.
On behalf of the Structural Engineer
website,
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Virtual Structural Engineer
New Additions:
Videos of a wood structure being subjected to the Northridge earthquake, Rinaldi record. Available by the NEES
website at the University
of Buffalo.
Skyscraper Picture Collection: pictures of skyscrapers from 52 cities in
18 different countries on 4 different continents.
Video Showing World
Trade Center
Collapse.
Photo Gallery of Damages to Structures due to Earthquake. National Information Center
of Earthquake.
American Institute
of Steel Construction:
Digital Case Studies, movies and animated sequences that show the
production, detailing, fabrication, and erection of structural steel.
British Steel: Photographs and case studies.
British Steel Construction Manual On-Line.
Peru
Earthquake of 15 August 2007: Photo Library. New Zealand Society for
Earthquake Engineering Inc. (NZSEE).
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Structural Engineer Section
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Events in Structural Engineering
2007
2007 World Steel Bridge
Symposium (WSBS). 04-07 December 2007. Sheraton
New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA.
2008
14th World Steel Conference. 12-14 March 2008. Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials VII.
(The 7th biennial Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials conference),
14-19 September, 2008. Four Points by Sheraton Hyannis
Resort, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.
14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE). 12-17 October
2008. Beijing Jiuhua
International Conference and Exhibition
Center, China.
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Page
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Online Structural Engineering Library
A collection of publications available on the
internet at no cost. (Currently 66 different recources
in 10 sections)
New Additions:
Standards and design codes
AISC Specification for Structural Steel
Buildings.
AISC Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel
Buildings.
AISC Prequalified
Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moments Frames for Seismic
Applications.
Repair and Retrofit of Structures
Evaluation and Repair of Concrete Structures.
Concrete Structures
P.S. Chana, (2006).
Fact Sheet 1. Document No: ST/FS/1: Fire Resistance of Concrete: British
Cement Association Publication.
C.A.
Clear, (2006). Fact Sheet 5. Document No: ST/FS/5: Self-Compacting
Concrete: British Cement Association Publication.
Seismic Design
Designing for earthquakes: A manual for architects, EERI-FEMA
Report, December 2006.
Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria, (2006).
Version 1.4. California Department of Transportation.
IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips - Learning Seismic
Design and Construction.
IAEE Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-
Engineered Construction (English Edition by NICEE.
E-conference on Indian Seismic Codes, (2002). National Information Centre
of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur , India.
O.R. Jaiswal, Durgesh C. Rai, M. Eeri and Sudhir K. Jain,
(2007). Review of Seismic Codes on Liquid Containing Tanks. Earthquake Spectra , Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 239-260. Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute.
Hugo Bachmann, (2003). Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings - Basic
Principles for Engineers, Architects, Building owners, and Authorities. Federal
Office for Water and Geology (FOWG), Federal
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Federal
Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). BWG, Biel.
Andrew Charleson, (2007). Architectural Design
for Earthquake. New
Zealand Society for Earthquake
Engineering.
Steel Structures
ESDEP-the European Steel Design Education
Programme - lectures.
Connections in Steel Structures IV: Papers from the Fourth International
Workshop on Connections in Steel Structures.
Steel Building Symposium - Blast and
Progressive Collapse Resistance.
Economy in Steel - A Practical Guide.
Connections in Steel Structures V: Innovative Steel Connections, (2004).
Papers from ECCS / AISC
Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
UK
Structural Steel Sections.
Properties of European I beams.
Tim Mrozowski, Matt Syal,
Syed Aqeel Kakakhel, (1999). Construction Management of Steel
Construction. Project Management - Scheduling - Estimating. American
Institute of Steel Construction Inc. Chicago.
Earthquake Reports
Mw 6.3 Yogyakarta (island
of Java, Indonesia) earthquake report, Mid-America Earthquake Center.
Bhuj (India) Earthquake of 26
January 2001.
General
Thomas J. Mackin, (2001). Engineering Analysis
of Tragedy at World
Trade Center.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
Tim Wilkinson, (2006). World
Trade Center
Collapse - Some Engineering Aspects. School
of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney,
NSW, Australia.
Tim Wilkinson, (2002). The World
Trade Center
and 9/11: A Discussion on Some Engineering Design Issues. "Safe Buildings
for This Century", Australian Institute of Building Surveyors National
Conference, Darling Harbour, Sydney,
Australia.
Z. P. Bazant and Mathieu Verdure, (2007).
Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade
Center and Building
Demolitions. ASCE Journal of Engineering
Mechanics, Vol. 133, No. 3.
Z. P. Bazant, Jia-Liang
Le, Frank R. Greening and David B. Benson, (2007). Collapse of World Trade Center
Towers: What Did
and Did Not Cause It? Structural Engineering Report No. 07-05/C605c,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern
University, Evanston,
Illinois, USA.
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE.
G. Charles Clifton, (2001). Collapse of the World Trade
Centre Towers.
HERA Structural Engineer.
Dr. Steven E. Jones, (2006). Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely
Collapse? Journal of 9/11 Studies, Volume 3.
EPA's Response to the World Trade Center
Collapse: Challenges, successes and Areas for Improvement, (2003). Report
No. 2003-P00012. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S.
Office of Inspector General.
E-conference on Professional Issues in Structural Engineering in India,
(2002). National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,
India.
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Educational Structural Websites
New Additions:
General
The Great Buildings Collection
Steve Billingsley. Introductory Problems in Structural Analysis: A set of
introductory problems in structural analysis, with their solutions
presented in a step by step manner. Analysis of
statically determinate and indeterminate structures are
illustrated.
Dr. E.W. Sandt, (2003). Structural Concrete
Design Lectures. Civil Engineering Department, Texas A&M University.
Teaching Material On Structural Steel Design - 45 Chapters based on Limit State design of Steel Structures,
for Indian Civil / Structural Engineering Students & Faculties.
Steel Teaching Aids
Collapse of the World
Trade Center,
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia.
Bridges
Notable Modern Bridges
Tall Buildings - Skyscrapers
World's 200 Tallest High-rise Buildings.
World's Tallest Skyscrapers.
List of tallest buildings and structures in the world - >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
World's Tallest Buildings.
World's Tallest Towers.
Tall Buildings Under-Construction.
Destroyed buildings / structures.
Dams
World's Largest Dams.
World's Highest Dams.
Tunnels
Notable Tunnels.
Softwares
University of Alberta ANSYS
Tutorials.
Peter Budgel, (1999). ANSYS
Tips and Tricks, Ontario,
Canada.
AutoCad Drawing Gallery.
Stadiums
World Stadiums.
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Structural Software Listing
NONLIN - Microsoft
Windows based application for the Nonlinear Dynamic Time History Analysis
of Single Degree of Freedom Structural systems.
FEAPpv: A Finite Element Analysis Program:
Personal Version - FEAPpv is a general purpose
finite element analysis program which is designed for research and
educational use.
Shear.exe is a Computer Based Training module. It covers a description of
shear stresses in structures, shear flow and shear centre.
WinFElt is an open source system for finite
element analysis. The current version of FElt
knows how to solve linear static and dynamic structural and thermal
analysis problems; it can also do modal and spectral analysis for dynamic
problems.
RCC-2000 is Spreadsheets for Concrete Design to BS 8110 and EC2. User
Guides for each spreadsheet in MS Word format and Acrobat .pdf format.
MASTAN2 is an interactive graphics program that provides preprocessing, analysis, and postprocessing
capabilities.
LISA is a Multi-Physics Finite Element Analysis Program developed to meet
the needs of Small and Medium Engineering Firms for Capability,
Reliability and Price.
CADRE Lite is a 3D Finite Element Structural
Analysis Program.
FesaWin is a Finite Element Analysis program
used for the design of various structures.
Static and Dynamic Structural Analysis of 2D and 3D Frames: Free software
for static and dynamic structural analysis of 2D and 3D frames and
trusses with elastic and geometric stiffness.
MYSTRAN is a general purpose finite element
analysis computer program for structures that can be modeled
as linear.
VisualFEA is an innovative finite element modeling software.
Section Properties of a Plate Girder: Spreadsheet for the derivation of
the section properties of a plate girder symmetrical about the y-y axis.
Structural Analysis and Design Software.
Membrane-2000 is an easy to use analysis program that will calculate the
load-deformation relationship for a uniform panel of reinforced concrete
subjected to in-plane shear loading.
Concrete Mix Design, describes methods for selecting proportions for
hydraulic cement concrete made with and without other cementitious
materials and chemical admixtures.
Check for Programs & Applications in
Structural Engineering
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Structural Engineering History
New Additions:
History of Structural Enginenering, The
Institution of Civil Engineers.
History of Structural Engineering, From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
Building History: Historical Framework, Lecture Notes of Prof. Raimar Scherer, Institute for Construction Informatics.Technische Universitat
Dresden.
Prof. Raimar Scherer. Course G-3, Building
History. Lecture 7: Structural Engineering History. Faculty of Civil
Engineering, Institute for Construction Informatics. Technische
Universitat Dresden.
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Structural Engineering Magazines
New Additions:
Magazine of Concrete Research by Thomas Telford Ltd.
Concrete International by the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
Modern Steel Construction by AISC.
Structural Building Components by AISC.
Bridge Design & Engineering by bridgeweb.com
CONCRETE, the magazine of The Concrete Society.
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