4 Structural Engineering: Trends, Applications, and Advances
4.1 Overview of Structural Engineering
Structural engineering is one of the most important fields in civil engineering. Structural engineering is basically the field that is responsible for making the structure stand safe for its entire life span. The word ‘structure’ here implies any type of structure, such as buildings, bridges, water-retaining structures, retaining walls, dams, etc. Reinforced cement concrete and steel structures are the most common types of structures. Structural engineering involves analysis, design, monitoring, damage detection, repair, rehabilitation or retrofitting, and preservation of historical ...
Get Data Science for Civil Engineering now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
