Transportation Engineering

Transportation Engineering is related to design and analysis of Highways, Railways, Airports, Urban and Suburban Road Networks, Parking Lots, and Traffic Control Signal Systems.

Highway is defined as the main road intended for travel by the public between important cities and towns. The Pan-American Highway is the longest international highway which connects many countries. It is nearly 48,000 kilometers long. Whereas the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas, USA, is the widest highway having a total of 26 lanes in some sections.

Railway is an energy-efficient means of transport which runs on permanent way consisting of two parallel rails made of steel and fastened to sleepers or ties which rest on ballast or secured to solid foundation. Rail transport is a major form of public transport in many countries.

Good knowledge of construction materials, geotechnics and equipments is also required by a transportation engineer.

Intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an emerging trend in leading countries which is based on applications of information technology. The components of transportation system (vehicles, roads, traffic lights, message sign etc) are now embedded with microchips and sensors enabling them to communicate with each other through wireless technology. ITS is aimed to improve safety, security and efficiency of transportations systems.

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Solved Examples on Application of equilibrium equations to find support reactions; truss member forces by method joints and method of sections.

Solved examples on shear force and bending moment diagrams for cantilever, simply supported beam and overhanging beams.

Solved examples on deflection of beam and truss by different methods like doble integration, Macaulay's method, energy method (unit load method).

Solved examples on indeterminate structures by slope-deflection equation, moment distribution method, consistent deformation(compatibility)

Solved examples for determination of strength of reinforced concrete beams (singly reinforced and doubly reinforced).

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Stress Transformation Calculator
Calculate Principal Stress, Maximum shear stress and the their planes

Calculator for Moving Load Analysis
To determine Absolute Max. B.M. due to moving loads.

Bending Moment Calculator
Calculate bending moment & shear force for simply supported beam

Moment of Inertia Calculator
Calculate moment of inertia of plane sections e.g. channel, angle, tee etc.

Reinforced Concrete Calculator
Calculate the strength of Reinforced concrete beam

Moment Distribution Calculator
Solving indeterminate beams

Deflection & Slope Calculator
Calculate deflection and slope of simply supported beam for many load cases

Fixed Beam Calculator
Calculation tool for beanding moment and shear force for Fixed Beam for many load cases

BM & SF Calculator for Cantilever
Calculate SF & BM for Cantilever

Deflection & Slope Calculator for Cantilever
For many load cases of Cantilever

Overhanging beam calculator
For SF & BM of many load cases of overhanging beam

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