On Friday, March 14, a porch roof collapsed during a house party in Oakland, near the University of Pittsburgh, injuring at least 16 people. The structure gave way and detached from the side of the h...
On Saturday, March 15, extreme weather conditions swept across the United States as tornadoes tore through multiple regions, resulting in at least 33 fatalities and numerous injuries. Authorities rep...
On Thursday, March 13, 2025, a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Naples, Italy. According to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the quake struck at approximately 1:25 a.m. lo...
You can now find TheStructuralEngineer.info's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting structural engineering news of February 2025. Namely, these...
On Saturday, March 8, a multi-storey textile factory collapsed in the Focal Point Phase-8 area of Ludhiana, Punjab, India, resulting in the death of one worker and severe injuries to six others. The...
As part of our commitment to you to deliver new builds more frequently, this version which adds great new functionality to improve efficiency for engineers around the world and has resolved numerous...
Project Executive John Grillo started at Keller (then Hayward Baker) in 2011 as a project manager in New York and has over 20 years of experience as a geotechnical engineer and specialty contractor....
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced nominations are now open for the 2025 Going Digital Awards. This renowned global program recognizes the...
Keller received the 2024 Groundwater Treatment Project of the Year award from The Dewatering Institute after successfully treating over 65 million gallons of water for a master-planned community. Riv...
With the new STAAD Foundation Advanced 2024 (v24.00.01) release users can now design isolated and combined foundations according to IS 456:2000. Previously, isolated and combined footings could only...
New ultra-resistant and self-repairing concrete materials have been designed by a team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Politecnico di Milano. In cracking situations, the ne...
Given: For the rectangular section of Figure 1 calculate the longitudinal reinforcement for shear and torsion. The section considered has depth 1500mm, width 1000mm, d = 1450mm. The vertical membe...
The problem: Determine the second moments of area, Ixx and Iyy, for the sections indicated in Figures 2a to 2e. Tip: It is given that the total height and the area of the 457 x 152 x 52 UB...
The problem: Determine the cross-sectional area and the position of the centroid for the sections shown in Figures 1a to 1e. Please consider that the origin of the coordinate system is located...
Calculate the shear force and bending moment values due to the imposed loading on the overhanging beam of Figure 1. Figure 1: The overhanging beam considered. The free-body-diagram is shown in F...
In the field of structural engineering and design, the examination of dynamic loads is significant and cannot be underestimated. Time history analysis stands out as a crucial approach to studying...
Given: A simply supported beam of length L=5m is given in Figure 1a. The beam is subjected to uniform distributed load equal to 3.2kN/m. If the beam has a rectangular cross-section, as shown in...
Please determine the forces in the members BC, GC and GF of the pin-jointed plane truss shown in Figure 1 using the method of sections. Given: Figure 1: The pin-jointed plane truss considered. So...
Structural Engineering Solved Problems contains 100 practice problems representing a broad range of topics on the Structural Engineering (SE) and Civil PE exams. Each problem provides an opportunity t...
The Structural Depth Reference Manual prepares you for the structural depth section of the Civil PE exam. It provides a concise, yet comprehensive review of the structural depth section exam topics an...
Structural Depth Practice Exams contains two 40-problem, multiple-choice exams consistent with the NCEES Civil PE structural depth exam's format and specifications. Like the actual exam, the problems...
