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    Structural engineering involves planning, designing, and constructing safe and economical structures. The process includes establishing requirements, preliminary design, load estimation, analysis, safety and design checks, and revising the design if needed. Past projects demonstrate that considerations like appropriateness, economy, structural adequacy, and maintainability are important for success.

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     Structural engineering is the science and art of planning,

    designing, and constructing safe and economical structures that


    will serve their intended purposes. Structural analysis is an
    integral part of any structural engineering project, its function
    being the prediction of the performance of the proposed
    structure.
    1. Planning Phase. The planning phase usually involves the establishment of
    the functional requirements of the proposed structure, the general layout
    and dimensions of the structure, consideration of the possible types of
    structures (e.g., rigid frame or truss) that may be feasible and the types of
    materials to be used (e.g., structural steel or reinforced concrete). This
    phase may also involve consideration of nonstructural factors, such as
    aesthetics, environmental impact of the structure, and so on. The outcome of
    this phase is usually a structural system that meets the functional
    requirements and is expected to be the most economical. This phase is
    perhaps the most crucial one of the entire project and requires experience
    and knowledge of construction practices in addition to a thorough
    understanding of the behavior of structures.
    2. Preliminary Structural Design In the preliminary structural design phase,
    the sizes of the various members of the structural system selected in the
    planning phase are estimated based on approximate analysis, past
    experience, and code requirements. The member sizes thus selected are
    used in the next phase to estimate the weight of the structure.
    3. Estimation of Loads. Estimation of loads involves determination
    of all the loads that can be expected to act on the structure.
    4. Structural Analysis. In structural analysis, the values of the loads
    are used to carry out an analysis of the structure in order to
    determine the stresses or stress resultants in the members and the
    deflections at various points of the structure.
    5. Safety and Serviceability Checks. The results of the analysis are
    used to determine whether or not the structure satisfies the safety
    and serviceability requirements of the design codes. If these
    requirements are satisfied, then the design drawings and the
    construction specifications are prepared, and the construction
    phase begins.
    6. Revised Structural Design. If the code requirements are not
    satisfied, then the member sizes are revised, and phases 3 through 5
    are repeated until all the safety and serviceability requirements are
    satisfied.
    Process of creating a structure that
    Given a structure and loading,
    meets certain performance
    determine strength, stiffness, internal
    objectives in the face of numerous
    forces, reactions
    considerations
    Appropriateness -Failed Economy -Failed

    The Pruitt-Igoe Housing Development


    (St. Louis) was a series of nearly
    The Sydney Opera House cost the
    identical concrete buildings focused on
    owners 20 times as much as the
    utility over aesthetics. Development
    initial estimate cost
    became a crime ridden project and was
    demolished 16 years after construction
    Structural Adequacy - Maintainability-Failed
    Failed

    The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was The Ringling Bridge in Sarasota is a post-
    designed with such a slender deck tensioned, segmental bridge built in 2003.
    that the wind caused excessive Only 8 years after its construction, the
    deformations that eventually led bridge already had excessive corrosion
    to its failure requiring substantial maintenance

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