By

N. Krishna Veni
 Civil Engineering is one of the most
indispensable part of society. Civil
Engineering is the backbone of civilization,
our infrastructure, the buildings, mansions,
factories, freeways, high-speed railways.
 Structural Engineering is a field of
engineering dealing with analysis and
design of structures that support or
resist loads

 Structural engineering theory is

based upon physical laws and
empirical knowledge of the structural
performance of different landscapes
and materials
 Structural engineering depends upon a detailed
knowledge of loads, physics and materials to
understand and predict how structures support
and resist self-weight and imposed loads
 Structural engineers ensure that their designs
satisfy a given "design intent", predicated on
safety (e.g. structures do not collapse without
due warning), or serviceability (e.g. 
floor vibration and building sway do not result
in discomfort for the occupants). Structural
engineers are responsible for making creative
and efficient use of funds and materials to
achieve these goals.
 Seismic Design of New Bridges , Buildings and
Dams
 Retrofit of Old Buildings and Dams to Resist
Earthquakes
 The term structural derives from the Latin
word structus, which is "to pile, build assemble". The
first use of the term structure was c.1440. The term
engineer derives from the old French term engin,
meaning "skill, cleverness" and also 'war machine'.
This term in turn derives from the Latin
word ingenium, which means "inborn qualities,
talent," and is constructed of in- "in" + gen-, the root
of gignere, meaning "to beget, produce." The term
engineer is related to ingenious.
 Structural engineering dates back to 2700 BC
when the Step pyramid for Pharaoh Djoser was
built by Imhotep
 Gustave Eiffel is
the pioneer of
the use of iron in
structural
engineering
 Developments in the understanding of materials and structural
behaviour in the latter part of the 20th Century have been
significant, with developed of topics such as 
fracture mechanics, earthquake engineering, 
composite materials, temperature effects on materials,
dynamics and vibration, fatigue, creep and others.The
increasing range of different structures and the increasing
complexity of those structures has led to increasing
specialisation of structural engineers.
 For systems that obey Hooke's law,
the extension produced is directly
proportional to the load. If it exceeds
hookes law a structure is called as
failure structure.
 Stress
 Deflection
 Buckling
 Creep
 Fracture
 Wear
 yielding
Any structure is essentially made up of
only a small number of different types of
elements:
 Columns
 Beams
 Plates
 Arches
 Shells
 Catenaries
 Structural loads on structures are generally
classified as live (imposed) loads and dead
loads.
 Live loads are transitory or temporary loads
 Dead loads are permanent, and may include the
weight of the structure itself and all major
permanent components.
 Axial: cables,shells,arches
 Flexural: beams,plates
 shear: frames,shear walls
 Structural engineering depends on the knowledge
of materials and their properties, in order to
understand how different materials support and
resist loads.
 Common structural materials are:
 Iron
 Concrete
 Aluminum
 Timber
 Composites
 Building structures
 Earthquake engineering structures
 Civil engineering structures
 Mechanical structures
 Structural building engineering includes all
structural engineering related to the design of
buildings. It is the branch of structural
engineering that is close to architecture.
 Civil structural engineering includes all
structural engineering related to the built
environment.
 It includes:
Bridges
Dams
Roads
Railways
Pipelines
Power stations
backbone of civilization, our infrastructure, the magnificent buildings, mansions, theme-parks, factories, freeways, high-speed railways, tunnels that bore through mountains to make routes shorter, bridges that span large valleys and rive

 tunnels that bore through mountains to make routes

shorter.
 bridges that span large valleys and rivers.
 Dams that provide water and electricity, everything
owes its existing to this wonderful science, this
branch of Engineering.
 A structural engineer is most commonly involved in
the design of buildings and nonbuilding structures but
also plays an essential role in
designing machinery where structural integrity of the
design item impacts safety and reliability. Large man-
made objects, from furniture to medical equipment to
a variety of vehicles, require significant design input
from a structural engineer.
 Principals of structural engineering are applied
to variety of mechanical (moveable) structures
is referred to as Structural Mechanical
Engineering.
 Earthquake engineering structures are those
engineered to withstand various types of
hazardous earthquake exposures at the sites of
their particular location.
 Understand what happened in past earthquakes
 Understand how materials, members and
structures respond
• Basic tests of materials
• Physical test of individual members
• Small scale tests of structures
 Incorporate knowledge into computer analysis
to simulate earthquake demands
Satisfaction of seeing
your work getting
built,

and watching peopl

people use the
finished finished products.
 Design future
land mark structures,
or help save old ones
 Contributes to the Safety of Society
 Heyman, Jacques (1999). The Science of
Structural Engineering.
 Heyman, Jacques (1998). Structural Analysis:
A Historical Approach
 Labrum, E.A. (1994). Civil Engineering
Heritage
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_enginee
ring