Is The Wall Load Bearing?

Open floor plans are become more and more common in buildings since they create a lot more light and offer flexibility.

How To Calculate and Draw Shear Force Diagrams

Shear force is an extremely important phenomena in structural engineering and also useful for mechanical, civil, aerospace and others (so don’t worry if you’re not the best).

The Most Common Building Materials

This post is going to cover the most common building materials.

Steel Grades, A Deep Dive

This post will explain and hopefully enlighten you about steel grades.

First Moment of Area

In this post, we will be learning why and how to calculate the first moment of area.

How to Calculate the Centroid

In this post we will explore the centroid, it will be full of information in text, equations and pictorial forms with examples that are solved step by step to help you understand and apply equations to calculate the centroid of a shape and the first moment of area and most importantly, why we need too!

Types of Supports and Reactions

In this post, we will cover what support conditions are in structures.