A satisfactory design of flat plate roof system requires the magnitude of deflection at service load to be within the acceptable limit. Excessive deflection of reinforced concrete flat plate can cause severe serviceability ...

Soil investigation and foundation design may together account for a significant cost of a building while encountered. with a geologic situation that has low bearing capacity. In this s£tuation, the greatest concem of the ...

Safe drinking water is used as a barrier against many water borne diseases. Sylhet, one of the six divisional cities of Bangladesh is suffering from shortage of domestic water supply. At present, water supply system of ...

Thc effects of lime content on the permcability of lime- trcated soils were investigated. Three soils, namely, a fine sand, a rclatively coarse sand and a clay were collected from diffcrent areas of Bangladesh for thesc ...

The geographical location and topographic composition have made Bangladesh vulnerable to natural disasters. Bangladesh is frequently hit by natural disasters, most of them related to water, like flood, drought, riverbank ...

This study deals with the non linear finite element analysis of reinforced concrete beams with opening basea on rate independent material non' linearity. Rate-independent plasticity is characterized by the irreversible ...

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In Dhaka, water supply systems vary among communities from conventional piped water system to many improvised systems, such as hand pump fitted with tubewell, flexible pipes carrying water from main supply line, etc. In ...

In this study attempts have been made to construct an analytical model that closely resembles the real field behaviour of Dhaka soil. In developmg the model, the critical state program - CRISP - has been used in its core ...

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