What is Liquidated damages? What are its clauses

Monetary compensation for a loss, detriment, or injury to a person or a person\’s rights or property, awarded by a court judgment or by a contract stipulation regarding violation of contract. Definition Cash compensation, agreed to by signed, written contract for breach of contract, payable to the aggrieved party. {Law Dictionary: (Black\’s Law Dictionary} Generally, … Read more

What is finite element analysis and how many types are used in analysis and design of concrete structures

Advancements in the field of computer aided engineering during the last two decades have been quite extensive and have led to considerable benefits to many engineering industries. Similarly the advantages can also be observed in the building industry where the softwares and tools which uses finite element have allowed the introduction of innovative and efficient … Read more

12+ Skills civil engineering students must have

Throughout the four years I have spent in an engineering college I have gone through various challenges and difficult situations where your survival sometimes look difficult for you and you think“Now it’s the time to leave this world”. Don’t take engineering as easy as sciences or arts, although not any work in this world is … Read more

Retaining Walls, the support soil needs to stand up

We know that soil or any other loose granular material has a safe angle of repose at which the soil or material can withstand without any requirement of confinement or support. But due to practical and property restrictions we in some cases need to cut or fill the soil at some unstable angle which if … Read more

Difference between free way (motorway) and a simple highway?

In pavement engineering we mostly hear the terms highway, motorway and freeway. These terms sometimes causes confusion about what they mean in real and what is the basic difference in them. In this post we will try to find the basic difference between these terms. Difference between motorway and simple highway Firstly all these terms … Read more