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Software every Civil Engineer should know

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In this digital era, Each and every one has to adept digital media so as construction industry also. How hard construction industry tries to hold on to the traditional methods for execution doesn’t matter, the increasing complexities and intricacies of construction sites are going to bend it down eventually unless the industry makes itself adept with all the necessary digital software. This pandemic has given the opportunity to learn the software and this updation in your resume will help you in your career. Here is a list of important software, a civil engineer must know. Microsoft Excel As we all are well educated, we know how to use it but it is bigger than you imagine. Spreadsheet programs are used to perform routine calculations in engineering especially for repetitive calculations that do not need sophisticated programming. Sophisticated programming can be performed inside Excel by using Visual Basic for Applications. Microsoft Project Microsoft Proje
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Self-Sensing Concrete

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Self-sensing concrete is a smart concrete technology that can sense the stress, strain, and damage in itself. It is also called as self-monitoring or piezoresistive or pressure-sensitive or intrinsically smart concrete. Composition of Self-Sensing Concrete It is similar to the conventional concrete except the addition of functional fillers. The functional fillers used can be steel fibers, carbon fibers or carbon nanotubes, nickel powder, etc. Property of this concrete is due to the arrangement of the functional fibers in the concrete.The functional fibers are well dispersed in the concrete matrix, based on which the concrete matrix has a unique and extensive conductive network. The self-sensing concrete has a complex structure. It is a multiphase and multiscale composite. Self-sensing concrete is a combination of two-phase material at macroscopic level in which the functional fillers are dispersed in the concrete matrix. This functional fillers can exist in fiber,
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Preliminary Works in Construction

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Preliminary works refer to all the activities that are involved in a construction site before the actual work starts, such as demolition, site clearance, site survey, soil survey, planning, designing, and cost estimation. Demolition This is the step in which by means of controlled or pre-planned methods structure is destroying. It can be done before a structure is still healthy to serve. The  demolition process  is undertaken when a structure is objecting or intervening or lies in the boundaries of a new proposed building. In this stage surveying of buildings, removal of hazardous materials, methods of demolition and safety measures covered. Site Clearance It is important stage to remove unnecessary obstructing elements such as vegetation found at the site to prepare for excavation. This process involves grubbing of bushes or trees and removal of topsoil to form the reduced levels. Site and Soil Survey This is an essential preliminary step of the design a
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Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete

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Glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) comprises hydration products of cement, or cement plus sand, and the glass fibers.   Glass fibers are used are used as reinforcement for concrete. Glass fibers were first used to reinforce cement and concrete in Russia. It is available in the form of continuous rovings, chopped strand mats, cranette, wool, ropes and woven fabric. It is coated with epoxy resin compounds have also been tried out to protect them from alkali attack by Portland cement. Glass fiber, few microns in diameter can be added up to 5% by weight premixed with cement and water in a pan or a paddle mixture. Glass fiber has to be of 10mm to 50mm in length. Small quantities of lubricating admixtures, such as polyethylene oxide or methyl cellulose may be added into the mix.The products can also be produced either by extrusion or by injection-moulded process. Tensile strength can be increased roughly two times by addition of glass fiber of 10% by volume and that impa
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Construction Equipment – When to Buy, Rent or Lease?

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Equipment is a necessary tool for a project in construction industry. When deploying your construction equipment for a project site, the question whether to buy, rent or lease must be tackled in a very sane and judicious way. Important questions pertaining to the duration of the need for equipment, the number of hours it’d be working at sites and geographical suitability must be answered to come to a decision. There are various factors that affect the buy-rent-lease decision in an equipment’s selection. With the surge in the demand for construction equipment, contractors have been buying more machines and at the same time have also been adopting rentals and leases to assist their own fleet. Below points will help to understand the buy-rent-lease decision. First, understand for Buying Buy Ø   While working on project if equipment is used for most of the construction period and likely to complete almost its full life then it is helpful to buy otherwise not advisory
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