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Grain bin collapse in Indiana caught on video, No injuries reported

A grain elevator collapsed in Martinton, northern Iroquois County, in the early hours of Wednesday. Video footage captured the moment when a concrete grain bin failed, spilling grain and snapping pow...

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Burnaby housing project: Ottawa lends $763 million to build 1,300 rental units

A $763-million low-interest loan from the federal government is helping to fund the construction of two large rental towers in Burnaby, a key part of Grosvenor’s three-block Brentwood Block redevelop...

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Blast at Bucharest apartment block kills 3, poses risk of collapse

Emergency services in Bucharest responded to a massive explosion at an apartment building that left three people dead and others injured, while raising concerns over possible structural collapse. T...

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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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Bhopal road collapse: Farmers, poor drainage, and substandard work cited in preliminary report

A 100-meter stretch of the Bhopal–Indore bypass collapsed on Monday October 13, forming a 30-foot-deep crater. The Madhya Pradesh government has established a three-member committee to investigate th...

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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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New Release - STAAD.Pro 2025

This version adds great new functionality to improve efficiency for engineers around the world and has resolved numerous issues that have been reported. It is highly recommended that you adopt this v...

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GKM Consultants to rebrand as GEO-Instruments

Keller North America (Keller) announces that Canadian-based instrumentation and monitoring company, GKM Consultants, will rebrand to GEO-Instruments, effective September 2, 2025. GKM Consultants is k...

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Researchers develop new ultra-resistant and self-repairing concrete materials

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...

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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...