Civil engineering

Civil engineering

The branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of such public works roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

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Concrete shell

Engineering; Civil engineering

A structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete. The shells may take the form of ellipsoids or cylindrical sections, or some combination. Most of them are buildings, including storage ...

Concrete shell

Engineering; Civil engineering

A structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete. The shells may take the form of ellipsoids or cylindrical sections, or some combination. Most of them are buildings, including storage ...

Method for controlling weakness in tension. It can be used to produce beams, floors or bridges. Type of reinforced concrete, in which steel bars are replaced by steel cables within ducts disposed to ...

Prestressed concrete

Engineering; Civil engineering

Reinforced concrete

Engineering; Civil engineering

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcing bars or other types of reinforcement have been integrated to improve one or more properties of the concrete. With proper protection of the ...

Air-entrained concrete

Engineering; Civil engineering

A low-density type of concrete throughout which small air bubbles are dispersed in order to increase its frost resistance: used for making roads. With 1 per cent of air, the loss of strength is ...

Root zone

Engineering; Civil engineering

That depth of soil which plant roots readily penetrate and in which the predominant root activity occurs. The area where a low-angle thrust fault steepens and descends into the crust.