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Boiler collapsed at thermal power plant in South Korea

South Korean authorities continued search and rescue operations on Thursday after a boiler tower collapsed at a thermal power plant in Ulsan, a city in the southeast of the country. The accident left...

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New Delhi: one more tunnel road to ease traffic congestion

The New Delhi government is planning to construct a tunnel road, about 4km long, to help reduce traffic congestion in the national capital. The Public Works Department (PWD) is currently working on a...

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Bridge collapse in Bihar’s Araria: Probe ordered for the structural failure

A pillar of a bridge worth around four crore rupees collapsed on Monday in Bihar’s Araria district, stopping all traffic across it. The bridge, which was built in 2019, connects Forbesganj with Pateg...

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WindEurope warns ports must scale up or Europe’s offshore wind targets will suffer

According to WindEurope, Europe’s ports play a critical role in accommodating the rapid escalation of offshore wind development, and a concerted push — including major investment and regulatory effor...

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Partial collapse at Rome’s 13th-Century Torre dei Conti during renovation

A section of the medieval Torre dei Conti, located near the Colosseum and the Roman Forum in Rome, partially collapsed on Monday amid ongoing renovation work. According to Italian authorities, one wo...

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ADINA Joins Structural WorkSuite: Unlocking Advanced Nonlinear and Multiphysics Analysis

Bentley Systems is excited to introduce Structural WorkSuite 2025, a major upgrade to its suite of structural analysis and design tools. This release offers engineers a cost-effective license that in...

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Bentley Systems Announces Winners of the 2025 Going Digital Awards

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the winners of the 2025 Going Digital Awards. The annual awards honor the extraordinary work of infrast...

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Bentley Systems Advances Infrastructure AI with New Applications and Industry Collaboration

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today unveiled new infrastructure AI capabilities at its Year in Infrastructure conference. Bentley also announced an I...

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Bentley Systems Bolsters Cesium with Reality Modeling Capabilities, Brings Geospatial Context to Infrastructure Engineering

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the availability of reality modeling services in Cesium, advancing its open platform for the built and...

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Structural Engineering Finalists in the 2025 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure

Bentley Systems, announced the finalists for structural engineering in the 2025 Going Digital Awards. The awards celebrate the extraordinary achievements of engineers and project teams in advancing i...

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Concrete Buildings as Rechargeable Batteries

The energy that comes from the wind and the sun as a renewable source has become a growing necessity. As a result, new ideas about rechargeable batteries have gained ground to capture these intermitt...

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Example: longitudinal reinforcement for shear and torsion according to EC2

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...

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Calculation of the second moments of area

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...

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Calculation of the cross-sectional area and the position of centroid

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...

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Overhanging beam: shear force and bending moment calculation

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...

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Time History Analysis: process and advantages

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...

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Bending stress in a beam element

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...

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Method of sections

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...

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Structural Engineering Solved Problems

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...

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Structural Depth Reference Manual for the Civil PE Exam, Fourth Edition

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...

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Structural Depth Practice Exams for the Civil PE Exam

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...