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When does an Engineer become an Artist?
I read somewhere that artists create dreams and visions, that may have no purpose except to be an expression of something to be admired and enjoyed, but engineers design and build something that is useful, and serves an intended purpose with reliability...
Are we listening to the heartbeat of our structures?
A few months ago, I went to for my (supposedly) annual medical checkup, which I had managed to skip a year earlier, and just to be on the safer side this year, opted for all the tests on list. While going through the test routine, I noticed, that no matter...
A Well-kept Secret in Structural Design - Revisited
I wrote this article on moment-curvature curve as being a well kept secret in structural engineering, a few years ago and gauging from the interest it had raised, I thought of updating it and complementing it with a...
Is the understanding of Member’s Cross-sectional Behavior, key to understand the Overall Structural Response?
The cross-sections of structural members...