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will be right back!

5:30 PM | Labels:

hello friends :D
i have been very busy for some time now and i've let my blog remain dormant. :(

i also have a 10 day camp coming up this year end and will not be able to blog till the second week of january. so i wanna wish you and your family a
"HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!"



Enjoy the holidays with your family and rock on the next year! ;) and i'll be right back next year :)


have a nice time. :)


cheers!
CP 



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How fast do you think a building could be built?

3:30 PM | Labels:

With new technologies and innovations taking over in the various fields the world is moving at a very fast pace. In construction field, the prefabricated constructions is the new rule. 


These prefabricated parts like beam, column, floor slab, etc. are manufactured in the factories and transported to the construction sites. Then by simple assembling process, the building rises at a very fast speed that none could have foreseen. some buildings that proudly show this fact are the The New Ark Hotel in china, the rotating towers of dubai, london, paris, etc.  


the following video shows the construction progress in the changsa, china leaving the place with a 16 storey  building in less than 6 days. the frame of this 50m high building is capable of withstanding a magnitude nine earthquake. just see the clock ticking by in the left corner of the video. it is an amasing work!





The next is the rotating tower which is based on the dynamic architecture. dynamic in the sense each floor rotates at a constant speed individually. they have introduced a fourth dimension called time, which makes it unique. this skyscraper also uses only the prefabricated structures. 90% of the construction is completed in the factory and it is calculated to take only 22 hours to construct this sky scraper. 


The world record for building a house stands at 3hr 26min 34sec, set by a team in Alabama.


The prefabricated structures have changed the world and brought about buildings that don't require any concrete! I wonder what the next step in the construction industries would be!


cheers!







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the thursday challenge is "construction"!

7:38 PM | Labels: ,

This Thursday challenge is "Construction". And i was excited the moment i read the topic :D this was one topic sculpted for me! (don't start pelting stones at me ;)) :mj

we had done a model of a building showing the ways in which it could be made "green". our class as a whole accepted the work and we started of planning.:d once done with it we got all the plywood, paints, nails, saw, hammer, markers, etc. then started the best part putting the plan together.:rainbow :$ we had a group of girls marking the lines for doors, windows, ends of walls, etc. and the boys taking the saws in their hands. have a look at it... 8)


stage 1: discussing the plan and marking. 8|

stage 2: nailing the plywoods together and painting them (1st coat)

stage 3: after second coat of paint our "building" is transferred from the "manufacturing" site to the final site.



our final product! :h


back elevation.


dedicated to the whole class who enjoyed doing it :D III year civil students of MSEC... this is for you :b


Cheers!

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My first Blog post in CE VoiCE!

12:41 PM | Labels:

I have been regularly reading the articles published in the CE-VoiCE which is the official Blog of the Crazyengineers website. I had wanted to write blog posts on the civil engineering topics at the VoiCE and so submitted my first blog post.

Here it is : The Pearl Bridge

Guys do read it :) that's construction project is engineering at it's peak!

The thing i liked the most about it is they employed their own country men for all jobs right from the foremen to the project head. Even the softwares and technology they used were what they invented themselves. They didn't depend on the best people from other nations and took the job in their own hands. That's what i admire about these Japanese. And they mad it a point to have precision to the millimeter scale in this project. :D ISN'T THAT GREAT ENGINEERING?

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My first Architectural plan

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i had done some drafting of floor plans for my uncle earlier. but this was the first time i did it with full enthusiasm and this is more professional than the earlier ones. but this is not the best plans. this is the best for students like me :D these were not planned by me. i just did the drafting part.:) here are some screen shots of the draft in autocad.


ground floor plan


first floor plan

cheers!
CP

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Back with a bang!

12:55 PM | Labels:

i was away from my blog with just 2 posts this month since i was held up with exams.:( I was myself feeling so bad watching my blog dormant.:c well i've given my blog a make over and i'm starting to make it be active. :D
starting now you can look out for interesting articles related to civil engineering marvels and the other interesting stuff too.
i'm gonna do my best for my blog now :) it deserves it :d

cheers!

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Traditional Architecture.

4:56 PM | Labels:

Buildings are the Worst Killers than the Earthquake. Earthquakes don’t kill; badly built houses do.. 
In certain hilly areas there were many traditional methods of construction which could allow the buildings to withstand the high intensities of earthquakes. 
I would like to brief you guys on one such ancient design of a structure in the hilly regions which has stood through the time without destroying when the earth quakes strike.

The building I’m taking about id “CHAINI KOTI TEMPLE” or “kath kunni” as it is locally known. This building lies in the himachal Pradesh in India. it is more than 5oo years old. These are actually built as temples for the local deities but became watch towers during wars.



The Chaini Koti temple is a tower style temple. that the verandah all around extends beyond the walls to form a cantilevered structure. Even the staircase is cantilevered.



Chaini Koti temple is a stone temple rising 26 metres at 2,200 metres above sea level Himachal lies inseismic zone 4 and 5, and the seven-storey Chaini Koti temple uses stone, wood and indigenous structural engineering to withstand the forces of nature. The main aspect of this structure is “the aesthetics of using local wood and stone without any cement plastering in this pristine backdrop.” Known as kath kunni, or wooden corners at right angles, this stone-and-timber technique delivers quake resistance comparable to modern construction science.

The temples are also repositories of traditional knowledge and materials. 
The main aspects of this design is:
  • Deodar, wood of the gods found in the Himalayas, is insect and borer resistant; it can also take extremes of rain and snow. Its timber, which can bear lateral stress, is ingeniously crafted by traditional master masons. That’s why the nail-less and cement less towers have been holding out against ground tremors for 500 years.
  • Quake resistant houses should have tie-bands (to act like beams) just above the level of the floor, the level of the doors and windows, and another at the roof level.
  • Corners are the most vulnerable and ought to be strengthened. Elasticity of the structure can be enhanced with flexible steel rods or wood batons at corners.
  • Doors and windows should be few, small and symmetrically placed away from the corners.
  • The house should be as light as possible.
  • it has a heavy base or plinth, which keeps the centre of gravity within the base.
all this has allowed this structure to remain unharmed even in during the hard earthquakes.

such ingenious architecture has been implemented even when our ancestors didn't formally have engineering qualifications. Hats of to them :)

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world's tallest clock tower

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The Mecca Clock Tower (Abraj Al-Bait Towers) will be more than 600 meters tall and six times the height of London's Big Ben . 

 The front side of the clock is adorned with glass mosaic and made of carbon fiber -- a highly-resilient material used in various technologies such as aerospace. 
The two main faces of the clock are 43 meters squared each, with the other two faces measuring 43 by 33 meters. 


it is under construction and is expected to be completed by this year end.  The hotel tower is topped by a four-faced clock. The tallest tower in the complex will also contain a seven-star hotel to help provide lodging for the over five million pilgrims who travel to Mecca annually to participate in hajj.







a elevation of the clock tower



a phase of construction of the clock room  



construction of the dome above the clock



a Arial view of the clock and dome



Magnificent na? 


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a post card pic...

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these are the pic my sis had taken a few months back on our trip to the charminar, India. nice, isn't it? like in a post card. :)











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the leaning tower of abu dhabi

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The buildings coming up in the recent times all have some unique feature in them that makes them all wonders. one such building with innovation and splender is the Capital Gate of Abu Dhabi. also called the "leaning tower of Abu Dhabi", it has got a place for itself as "the World’s Furthest Leaning Manmade Tower’. Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) Wanted a spectacular structure in Abu Dhabi.







The concept called symmetry is totally overruled and here there is no two floors with same plan or no two rooms with same dimensions. even the glass fascade which is made of daimonds( each containing 18 glass panes ) has no same dimensions. Right from the planning stage, the project managers and engineers had displayed passion and together put up this marvel.  

the inspiration for this structure is the waves and the dunes surrounding this desert. 


FACT FILE:-



1. 160 metres above ground
2. westward incline of 18 degrees. 
3. ‘World’s Furthest Leaning Manmade Tower’.
4. 7,000 m3 of concrete used in the foundation, which contains 490 piles drilled up to 30m deep.
5. 8,500 structural steel diagrids/ beams/ columns/ embedment .
6. 12,500 different glass panes form more than 720 distinct diamond-shapes on the tower’s external façade.
7. outdoor swimming pool, restaurant  on the 19th floor with a  panoramic view overlooking the Sheikh Zayed mosque



the picture below would show the section of the building and explain all the parts of the building.










this picture will show the construction of the column, the floors and glazing(glass fascade) all being done at the same time.


One major problem they faced during the construction was the central column. normally skyscrapers are built as a single huge column with the floors surrounding it. here the problem was as they kept building, the felt that the column would also bend westward due to the load of building acting on one side alone. so the solution they came up with was to build the column with a slight bend eastward and the column would come back to a straight position due to the load on the other side.

after a sequence of problems and awesome engineering the building progressed wonderfully. the final obstacle they had to overcome was the construction of a helipad on the terrace. which they did by testing a model to all the wind loads it would need to carry.

... And thus this wonder was born!!!


that's all folks :)












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Is this engineering?

8:10 PM | Labels:

i'm annoyed at the way we are made to study engineering.

there is nothing that i'm learning worthwhile :( it's only in the exam point of view and not in the life point of view. the engineering is something i need to remember for a life time and not forget within just one semester.
but i'm not generalizing each and every college in the country... just some like my college. :( and on statistics, my college has been placed number one among the affiliated colleges in my state for Civil Dept. so i hope you get the scenario.


We are made to learn the problems by writing them some number of times (I hate to call it... “Imposition“) instead of getting the basics right and then proceeding, that too in the structural design paper. This is not the way I want to learn engineering. The trainings we took up at the construction sites, for some two weeks during the summer, proved to be more fruitful than two years of my engineering put together. 

i'm seriously considering quitting my engineering and joining as an apprentice at some construction site, at least that way i'l get the knowledge i want and do some real engineering. ;) *just kidding*



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Highway passing through a building !!!

8:49 PM | Labels:

the last thing i'd want in my building...



... a highway passing through it. ;)


Gate Tower Building is a 16-story office building in Fukushima-ku, Osaka , Japan . And what makes it notable is the highway that passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building. The highway is part of the Hanshin Expressway, a network (239.3 km) of expressways surrounding Osaka , Kobe and Kyoto , Japan . The Gate Tower Building is Japan 's first building to have a highway pass through it. The highway passes through the building as a bridge, held up by supports next to the building making no contact with the building itself. 









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NATURE’S ENVY…

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Civil engineering is the mother of all engineering say some. I’d say civil engineering is the other name for innovation. One sees innovations coming up in all new constructions around us. Each and every building rising around us have a unique feature in them and are each a marvel. Nowadays “spectacular” is the bench mark for any new construction. 

If we take the world’s tallest man made wonder every one can immediately name burj kalifa. The unique feature in this is the height and looks. But we all know that engineers don’t stop with one endeavor. He tries to break his own record. Now the plan to construct the building taller than this is underway. Another wonder is the capital gate of Abu Dhabi. Though it is a mind blowing wonder it was not as popularized as the previous one. This capital gate was built as the “world’s farthest leaning man made tower”. Civil engineers have creators of today’s world and taken the nature’s job in their hands. The artificial palm islands of Dubai stand an example for this. The recent Indian wonder is the bandra worli sea link. One can go on listing the recent marvels of civil engineering.  

A big salute to the engineers who have put in a lot of effort to build these wonders and set new bench marks for others to cross in construction field.

Here is one poster that I and my friend designed to explain.









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