2. WHO IS A CIVIL ENGINEER ?
A civil engineer is a creative people who come up with lots of
ideas and have the power to turn them into real things for
people.
“Civil engineers have been shaping our cities for centuries,
helping develop the new and protect the old”
3. WHAT IS CIVIL ENGINEERING ?
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline
which deals with the construction, design and maintenance of
physical and natural built environment. It includes the works
like: construction of bridges, roads, dams, canals and
buildings.
4. SUB-DISCIPLINES OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Below are some important sub-disciplines of civil engineering:
❏Environmental Engineering
❏Water source Engineering
❏Coastal Engineering
❏Structural Engineering
❏Earthquake Engineering
❏Material Engineering
5. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
It is the branch of engineering that deals with nature. It is a
combination of science and engineering principles that leads
to refined natural environment.
6. WATER SOURCE ENGINEERING
Water source engineering is concerned with the management
and collection of water. It is a combination of hydrology,
geology, resource management and conservation. Water
resource engineering relates to the management of quantity
and quality of water in both above ground and underground
resources.
8. STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Structural engineering is related with the structural design
and structural analysis of building (towers and bridges). It
considers stiffness, strength and stability of the structures.
9. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
This is further a sub part of structural engineering.
Earthquake engineering deals with all natural disasters.
Earthquake engineers design and construct the structures in
such a way that no earthquake can destroy them.
10. MATERIAL ENGINEERING
Material Engineering is one of the important branches of civil
engineering. It studies the fundamental properties and
characteristics of various materials. As the name suggests, it
deals with various kinds of materials such as metals, concrete
and asphalt concrete and the attention is drawn to the
strength of aluminium, polymers, steels and carbon fibers.
11. SOME COMMON CAUSES OF ENGINEERING FAILURE
1. Extreme events (Loma Prieta Earthquake - 1989)
2. Unknown phenomena (Tacoma Narrows Bridge - 1940)
3. Design flaws (Hartford Civic Center - 1978)
4. All of the above
12. SOME RECENT DISASTERS
1. World Trade Center -2001
2. Northeast Blackout - 2003
3. Tsunami - 2004
4. Hurricane Katrina - 2005
13. TOP TEN IMPRESSIVE CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS
There are numerous
extraordinary
engineering projects
that have been
established and
completed. But the top
ten among them are:
1. Great Pyramid of Giza
2. Great Wall of China
3. Aqueduct of Segovia
4. Brooklyn Bridge
5. Panama Canal
6. Hoover Dam
7. Golden Gate Bridge
8. English Channel Tunnel
9. Burj Khalifa
10. Qingdao Haiwan Bridge