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adutt Progressive Member

Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 43
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:41 am Post subject: Time needed for design of structures |
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Dear Sefi members,
I would like to address a major problem that has not been mentioned much in this forum. We must attach importance to the time needed to do a complete and do a thorough design. Most of the time the structural designers are under tremendous pressure to give instructions to the drafting team & autocad technicians to finish off drawings. Most of the initial conceptual drawing stage that should be spent in devising a proper structural arrangement ,visualizing the load path & load transfer mechanism is lost in trying to meet the client's construction drawing deadline dates. The softwares comes handy & is useful but in a hurry often unrealistic modelling is done without giving any thought to the software's limitations /assumptions and often analysis results of the modelled structure are not cross checked by manual appromimate methods ,nor much time is devoted to see how the structure is behaving with a particular structural arrangement.
Any structure or project should be first studied & the time needed to tackle the problem should be given importance & we should not simply rush to meet the client's deadline.At the onset we must make it clear to our clients that the problem at hand may require in depth analysis & clearly tell him that the dates & time proposed by him is not doing justification to the project or the structure.
This may reduce the human error element also if we were given time to think clearly & go in a systematic manner with our calculations & analysis.We must remember that structural engineering is not just a bunch of equations but requires constant thinking & visualization.
Thanking you
With regards to all sefians
Amit Dutt -Structural Engineer
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:12 am Post subject: Time needed for design of structures |
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I appreciate the comments & concept of the author Design is very importat for structures to be carried out in detaisl but not after the architectural concept but effective from the inception stage to avoid the time delay which is only possible when disciplinary professionals work together & not obtain a devised drawing input For this attainment much has to be done in India Indian people are not used to Engineering professionalism anyhow it is not too late. Improvement is always possible in the world & probably India is rushing towards that direction noe & I am optimistic about this But one more issue raisable is to have propoer control on the construction operations which are oftenly overlooked by foothpath builders who are generally thump impression users India should remove all these quakes first & public should be made aware & also engineers should not think of money but try to standarise to global standards in execution Eng Suraj Singh
adutt@desein.com wrote: Dear Sefi members,
I would like to address a major problem that has not been mentioned much in this forum. We must attach importance to the time needed to do a complete and do a thorough design. Most of the time the structural designers are under tremendous pressure to give instructions to the drafting team & autocad technicians to finish off drawings. Most of the initial conceptual drawing stage that should be spent in devising a proper structural arrangement ,visualizing the load path & load transfer mechanism is lost in trying to meet the client's construction drawing deadline dates. The softwares comes handy & is useful but in a hurry often unrealistic modelling is done without giving any thought to the software's limitations /assumptions and often analysis results of the modelled structure are not cross checked by manual appromimate methods ,nor much time is devoted to see how the structure is behaving with a particular structural arrangement.
Any structure or project should be first studied & the time needed to tackle the problem should be given importance & we should not simply rush to meet the client's deadline.At the onset we must make it clear to our clients that the problem at hand may require in depth analysis & clearly tell him that the dates & time proposed by him is not doing justification to the project or the structure.
This may reduce the human error element also if we were given time to think clearly & go in a systematic manner with our calculations & analysis.We must remember that structural engineering is not just a bunch of equations but requires constant thinking & visualization.
Thanking you
With regards to all sefians
Amit Dutt -Structural Engineer
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