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04 Structural Engineering

Structural engineering is one of the oldest types of engineering, dating back to primitive shelters built with lashed tree branches. Structural engineers are responsible for designing structures like buildings and bridges to withstand stresses and pressures and remain safe throughout their use. Some of the earliest structures designed by structural engineers include the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the pyramids of Giza. Theoretical knowledge of structures advanced during the 19th century industrial revolution. Today, structural engineers use their understanding of physics, mathematics and materials science to analyze designs, ensure safety, and predict how structures will perform over time.

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04 Structural Engineering

Structural engineering is one of the oldest types of engineering, dating back to primitive shelters built with lashed tree branches. Structural engineers are responsible for designing structures like buildings and bridges to withstand stresses and pressures and remain safe throughout their use. Some of the earliest structures designed by structural engineers include the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the pyramids of Giza. Theoretical knowledge of structures advanced during the 19th century industrial revolution. Today, structural engineers use their understanding of physics, mathematics and materials science to analyze designs, ensure safety, and predict how structures will perform over time.

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➢ focuses on the framework of structures, and on designing those structures
to withstand the stresses and pressures of their environment and remain
safe, stable and secure throughout their use.

➢ Structural engineers make sure that buildings don't fall down and bridges
don't collapse

➢ Structural engineering is among the oldest types of engineering, dating back


to the first instance of tree branches being lashed together with vines to
make a shelter.
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people have been designing and building increasingly larger and more sophisticated
structures, from primitive huts to the International Space Station

James Lucas (2014) expresses that the names of the earliest practitioners of Structural
Engineering are lost to antiquity

It is possible that no one will ever know who designed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the
Parthenon or the aqueducts of the Roman Empire.

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Structural engineering has been in use since ages, and one of the greatest ancient
structures was the Pyramid of Giza that was constructed in the 26th century BC.

The major structures during the medieval period were the pyramids since the shape of the
pyramids is basically stable

Theoretical knowledge about the structures was limited, and construction techniques were
based on experience only

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The real advancement in the structural engineering was achieved in the 19th century
during the industrial revolution when significant progress was achieved in the sciences of
structural analysis and materials science

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Design and analysis of structures used to support loads in the most
economical manner, with maximum element of safety

Make sure that loads applied could be of a varied nature, including the load
on bridges due to traffic, effect of strong winds on high buildings, load on
structures because of variation in temperatures caused due to changes in
weather, and load due to earthquakes

Specialties of structural engineering are building engineering, industrial


structures, and pipeline engineering

Significant influence on the life, healthiness, and goods of people, due to


which extra vigilance is required during the construction and inspection of
the structures
work alongside civil engineers and architects as part of a construction team.

"In a nutshell," according to the Institution of Structural Engineers, "if a


structure was a human body, then the architect would be concerned with the
body shape and appearance, and the structural engineer would be
concerned with the skeleton and sinews."

Analyzing blueprints, maps, reports, and topographical and geological data

Estimating the cost and quantities of materials, equipment and labor

Computing load and grade requirements, water flow rates and material
stress factors to determine design specifications
Inspecting project sites to monitor progress and ensure the project is being
constructed according to design specifications

Conducting studies of traffic patterns or environmental conditions to identify


potential problems and assess how they will affect the project
ability to calculate how different
in-depth materials will perform under stresses
understanding of such as compression, tension, bending
and twisting, as well as under various
physics and environmental conditions of temperature,
pressure, corrosive gases and liquids,
mathematics and even radiation

knowledge on the properties ability to predict how


of various materials, such as these materials will
their density, hardness, tensile perform over an
strength, bulk modulus and extended period of
bending strength time
References:

❑ https://www.brighthubengineering.com/structural-engineering/43152-essentials-of-
structural-engineering/
❑ https://www.livescience.com/47816-structural-engineering.html
❑ MyMajors.com,

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