Disaster Management 5 min read
Disaster Management and Planning
Disaster is a natural calamity which may be in the form of • Drought • Flood • Cyclone • Forest…
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Disaster Management 5 min read
FIRE RESISTANT BUILDING
It is reported that in USA fire kills more people each year than all other natural disasters combined including floors,…
Disaster Management 2 min read
CYCLONE RESISTANT BUILDINGS
A cyclone is a storm accompanied by high speed whistling and howling winds. It brings torrential rains. A cyclone storm…
Disaster Management 2 min read
IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF TALL BUILDINGS
Tall buildings are subjected to heavy horizontal forces due to inertia during earthquake. Hence they need shear walls. A shear…
Disaster Management 4 min read
IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF SMALL BUILDINGS
The earthquake resistance of small buildings may be increased by taking some precautions and measures in site selections, building planning…
Disaster Management 1 min read
SEISMOGRAPH
Seismograph is an instrument for measuring oscillation of earth during earthquakes. It has three major components—the sensor, the recorder and…
Disaster Management 3 min read
Disaster Resistant Buildings
EARTHQUAKES RESISTANT BUILDINGS An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the earth surface caused by the breaking and shifting…
Mechanics of Marine Machines 4 min read
TYPES OF GEARS
A gear is a kind of machine element in which teeth are cut around cylindrical or cone shaped surfaces with…
Mechanics of Marine Machines 4 min read
Punch press
A punch press is a type of machine press used to cut holes in material. It can be small and manually operated and hold…
Mechanics of Marine Machines 18 min read
STATIC FORCE ANALYSIS OF MACHINERY
Systems without Resisting Force Initially, we shall neglect the forces associated with the inertia of the links and the resisting…
Mechanics of Marine Machines 3 min read
STATIC EQUILIBRIUM
From Newton’s First Law, a body is in static equilibrium if the resultant of all the forces (excluding the inertia…
Mechanics of Marine Machines 5 min read
FORCES IN MACHINE SYSTEMS
A machine system is considered to be a system of an arbitrary group of bodies (links), which will be considered…
