On Thursday 29 August 2019, we have successfully conducted a 1-day professional course on “Seismic Assessment & Retrofitting of Existing RC Structures” at the UTP Centre for Advanced and Professional Education (CAPE), Kuala Lumpur. This course has an approved 6.0 Read More …
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Updates to the ACI 318-19 on the Strut-and-Tie Model Design
In this month issue of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Concrete International (May 2019), there is an interesting article (entitled “Shear in Discontinuity Regions”) regarding the upcoming changes in the ACI 318-19 Building Code. The changes are introduced to address many Read More …
1st ICT STAGE 1 Concrete Practice Course in Malaysia
On Friday 03 May 2019, we have successfully organised our 1st ever one day preparatory course for The Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT) Certificate in Concrete Technology & Construction STAGE 1: Concrete Practice. This course has an approved 6.0 CPD Read More …
BIG Black Friday SALE! 23-25 Nov 2018
Benefit from 30% OFF discount on all Seismosoft products and bundles. The Black Friday SALE start on 23th of November until 25th of November. Grab this fantastic opportunity now for reduced prices on all Seismosoft products. Call us now at Read More …
KL Seminar on Seismic Assessment & Retrofitting of Existing RC Structures
Wallingford Consultancy Services (M) and Seismosoft Ltd (Italy) are pleased to work with the Civil and Structural Engineering Technical Division of The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) to organise a one day seminar on Seismic Assessment & Retrofitting of Existing Read More …
Where to Apply Strut-and-Tie Modelling
Extending from my previous post on Principles of Strut-and-Tie Modelling. I will like to share with you more examples and cases on how to define D-regions for strut-and-tie modelling (STM) applications, as well as various actual cases where STM can Read More …
How to select the most appropriate strut-and-tie model in your design?
Unless you are dealing with generic common design cases, I reckon this question would always pop up on almost all designers when they are dealing with STM. As I mentioned briefly in my previous post on the Principles of Strut-and-Tie Read More …
Principles of Strut-and-Tie Modelling
Strut-and-Tie Model (STM) design method has never been favoured by most of our local engineers, primarily due to the lack of coverage in the previous design standards (such as BS 8110 or BS 5400). However, with Malaysia embarking on the Read More …