Essays on Engineering

The chief engineer contracted to build a bridge connecting the island of Manhattan, and the City of Brooklyn passes on due to an infectious wound after sustaining an injury. His son, William Roebling, also an engineer takes over to get the job done. In an unfortunate twist of fate, he...

This paper is based on an experiment of establishing the consistency, density, and compressive strength of concrete. The experiment involves casting of 12 sets of concrete cubes to with three different water to cement ratios. Therefore, four sets of cubes are prepared using one W/C ratio. The essence of making...

You should submit your completed assignment to your tutor, arriving no later than Wednesday 25th April, 2018. Question 1 (carries 22% of marks) (a)A specimen of p-type silicon is 6mm in length, 2mm in width and 1mm thick. Its electricalresistance is 300 ꭥ measured along the length at room temperature. Assume that...

I am a freshman from India, and I have come to America to pursue a degree. My transition from my home country has been successful, and I am glad to have been admitted to this institution. I am going to major in electrical engineering and I have chosen to pursue...

The construction of concrete buildings in areas with structural challenges is difficult. Thus, the ongoing report incorporates theoretical applications of building and construction technology to help address the inadequacies presented by the area selected for construction. Inadequate analysis and investment into a construction site might compromise the structural integrity of...

I would wish to be part of the team studying engineering at Cornell since the engineering program provided in the college has what I need to pursue my future career and aspirations.  I understand that the college's undergraduate research opportunities are widely accessible and based on the topics that I...

In engineering, Warren girders are trusses consisting of upper and lower members connected by members arranged as a series of isosceles triangles (“Definition of WARREN GIRDER” 2018). They basically offer support to the other beams. They often have an I-beam cross-section with two load-bearing flanges separated by a stabilizing web....

The ingenuity of man in tackling societal problems has, over time, led to the construction of magnificent engineering structures, one of which are bridges. Bridges, by definition, refer to engineering artefacts that traverse over physical objects with a view to allow the passage of diverse objects such as ships, vehicles...

A beam is a structural element utilized in the supporting of heavy loads that make various structures. The huge loads supported by the beam always tend to bend the beam while the beam reacts by resisting the bending caused by the load. The bending characteristics of a beam are dependent...

In engineering and other fields related to it, bending moment is defined as a measure of the reaction produced by an element such as a beam when an external force or moment is applied to a structural element, thereby causing the element to bend (Gere and Timoshenko, 1996). Simply put,...

Heat treatment is a process that involved a combination of heating and cooling process which are timed, and they are applied on a metal or an alloy that is in solid state to make the materials gain a desirable property.  The processes of heat treatment always aid in increasing the...

Force on submerged surfaces can either be on an inclined or a horizontal plane. A body submerged in a fluid always has a force acting on it due to hydrostatic pressure. As such, these forces are known as hydrostatic forces. A single surface point of force emanates from a planar...