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The Engineering Mechanics Series - Ep. #1 Engineering Mechanics Series
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Hi friends, There are many of you who didn’t study civil or structural engineering in uni. And Structural engineering is based on fundamentals such as engineering mechanics, which can be quite difficult to self-learn. That’s why we’ll kick off a new series about engineering mechanics, which are taught in the first semesters, but we structural engineers use on a daily basis in our jobs. So, we’ll touch base on:
As always, comment below or answer this email, if you are interested in a specific topic. This was it for this week. We’ll be back with the first newsletter of the new series next week. See you there. Cheers, Laurin ↓ Follow me on Social Media. ↓ |
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The Moment Of Inertia Of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Sections - Ep. #17 Engineering Mechanics Series
Happy Wednesday, Welcome to the last episode of the engineering mechanics series. We’ve made it. Today, is post #16, and I am excited to share content about new topics from next week. Now, let’s get into today’s topic. Moment Of Inertia Of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Sections Last week I told you that most reinforced concrete sections of for example beams are cracked and that the stiffness is reduced once a section cracks. Cracks happen, when the tensile stress resistance of concrete is...
Happy Wednesday, The last 2 weeks, you got an introduction to what the moment of inertia and section modulus are and how you calculate them for “easy” and common cross-sections. BUT, we didn’t cover one of the most used cross-sections in structural engineering, the reinforced concrete cross-section, which is a composite section. So, today, we’ll cover how you calculate the moment of inertia of uncracked reinforced concrete sections, because you need that when you calculate a reinforced...
Hi friends, The section modulus is used in many structural calculations. We’ll show a few of these later in the article. It also depends on the shape and dimensions of a cross-section as the moment of inertia. In fact, the section modulus and moment of inertia of a cross-section are very similar, and often times we can use one or the other. In this Structural Basics episode, we’ll show you the difference between section modulus and moment of inertia. Welcome to post #15 of the engineering...