Mar 8, 2022 | Structural Engineering
In short, structural engineers are needed whenever there is a problem to be solved, or a problem to be unraveled, with respect to a structure. Of course, municipalities and large institutions hire both architects and structural engineers when they are building...
Mar 5, 2022 | Structural Engineering
Home inspectors generally will look at most properties that are being bought or sold to give the buyer peace of mind and the seller some freedom from liability if there are problems discovered with the home soon after the sale. But home inspector’s reports read like...
Mar 4, 2022 | Structural Engineering
Structure and Infrastructure Engineering could be better expressed in English as “Structural and Infrastructural Engineering.” The former is a title of a journal which seems to have been published overseas, but translated (roughly!) into English. “Structural...
Mar 3, 2022 | Structural Engineering
Value is the ratio of function to cost. (V = F/C) Of course, this is not a strictly numerical ratio, because cost can be defined in currency, but function is not objectively defined in dollars and cents. It can be easily seen that value is increased by...
Feb 22, 2022 | Structural Engineering
The multibillionaire inventor of the “Airblade” hand dryer, and a revolutionary vacuum cleaner and hair dryer, James Dyson, commenting on the theme of the importance of structural engineering in building design, said that his first inspiration about...
