Essay On Structural Failure

I.ABSTRACT
A structural engineer’s goal is to design structures which are stable enough for their intended uses. No engineer would want to see a structure fail, unless that engineer is an engineer researching about the causes of failures ( Ir. Tee Hean, B.Eng. (Hons), Msc Eng., MBA, MIEM).
When the material is stressed to its maximum strength, in that manner structural failure is initiated. Structural failures have never been witnessed by any young engineers in modern days. Failure of structure have adverse consequences on the parties involved in the construction of the structure. ( Ir. Tee Hean, B.Eng. (Hons), Msc Eng., MBA, MIEM).

2. INTRODUCTION:
Basically a structure is a system for transferring loads from one place to another and nature can demonstrate the examples of structures that support loads ( Seward ,1998).Structures also describes much of what is seen in nature such as a fern leaf, an oak tree, shrub with ribbed branches, spider webs,etc. ( Professor Harry,1993)
.Most of structures fail as a result of catastrophic failures, failures occurs when the overstressed construction reaches a critical stress level, as the structure is not being strong and tough enough to support loads (Collacott, 1985) .These failures are also being spotted as one of failures which recovery is impossible. In this paper

The simple routine concrete design checks for punching shear and minimum slab thickness been made, the punching shear failure can be avoided. The economical way to increase the punching shear capacity of the slab would be to increase the dimensions of the columns. By doing this, more space would be created for casting concrete between the vertical column reinforcement bars (Kaminetzky, 1991). The increasing of the thickness of the slab would have requires much concrete than increasing the dimension of the columns, increasing the column size would be economical solution (Delatte,