Journal of the Association of Engineers, India

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh

Abstract

The design of structure is never the product of a few rigid line design calculations and scientific techniques. In fact it has always been a compromise between aesthetics and concept of stress-morphology and few other relevent factors like economy, availability of material etc. In the ancient era of Egyptians or Greeks, the structures were mostly governed by aesthetics. Few successful structures were quite there. But failures were also numerous. Failure in the sense of insufficient resistive property of structural members or unnecessarily great resistive property of structure hampering structural rightness.

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Dhrubajyoti Ghosh ¹, Rajat Mohan Chatterjee ¹

Affiliations
1 Calcutta Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority, IN

Abstract

The contribution of soil mechanics in designing the stress characteristics of the buried conduits subjected to superimposed load is unquestionable. The effective total load reaching the conduit buried under the depth of backfilled earth can only be computed with precise care to the behaviour of soil mass under stress. Without this knowledge, the designer remains incompetant to develop design methods or detect the failure if it might occur.

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