“Life cycle cost and extendingservice life of Structures” By Hemant Vadalkar 1. Introduction : Most of our civil engineering projects are plannedand sanctioned based on the initial cost ofconstruction alone. Different design alternativesand corresponding cost estimates are worked outby the planners and design team. Generally, theoption having low initial cost of construction isselected by
Review of Special confining links in column as per IS13920-2016 and ACI318-2014 By Hemant Vadalkar From the past earthquake records and observations, it has been seen that many column failures during earthquake occurred due to buckling of main bars near beam column junction as there was no adequate lateral restain. Even during the structural audit
Unfourtunate incident happened on 14 March 2019 when part of the deck slab of Himalaya foot bridge outside CSMT collapsed killing 6 people and injuring more than 30 people. In one day, Chief engineer Vigilance from Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai provided the preliminary report. Is CE (Vigilance) competent to prepare such report? Why this
