Definition, Types, Effects, Cyclone management | Natural Disasters
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
Cyclones are huge revolving storms in the atmosphere with very strong winds circulating round a central area. The word cyclone is derived from the Greek, word cyclos meaning the coils of a snake.
Four Steps
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) provides a framework in which the uncertainties can be identified.
Four Steps, Advantages, Disadvantages, Applications
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
This type of analysis is done for a particular earthquake, either assumed or realistic.
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
The amplitude and the frequency content of the earthquake motion varies.
Seismograph, Construction, Working Principle, Application | Natural Disasters
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
The study of the seismic waves constitutes the science of seismology. It deals with earthquakes and seismic wave that move through the earth.
Definition, Types | Natural Disasters
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
A number of different types of low frequency waves which are originated from the focus and travel through the earth surface are collectively called seismic waves.
Basic Concepts, Estimation Techniques, Definition, Causes, Types, Classification, Effects of earthquake
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
The earthquake is caused by a portion of the rigid crust of the earth giving way or getting fractured, some distance below its surface.
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit V: Natural Disasters
Certain natural phenomena produce environmental disequilibrium or disaster or hazards causing large-scale destruction of human life and property.
New Engineering Materials | Physics For Civil Engineering
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit IV: New Engineering Materials
Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit IV: New Engineering Materials: Questions And Answers
Characteristics, Applications, uses
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit IV: New Engineering Materials
High alumina ceramics contain 85% or more by weight of Al2O3. • Alumina is an aluminium oxide (Al2O3), which is th e oldest engineering ceramic. • Alumina is produced from bauxite (Al2O3 • 2H2O).
Classification, Hexagonal Ferrites, Oxide ceramics
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit IV: New Engineering Materials
We know that soft magnetic (ferro magnetic) materials are easy to magnetise with low value of magnetic field. On the other hand, the hard magnetic materials require larger magnetic field for magnetization as well as demagnetization
Definition, Structure, Curie Temperature, Curie Constant, Hysteresis
Subject and UNIT: Physics For Civil Engineering: Unit IV: New Engineering Materials
We know that the piezoelectric crystals undergo a change in polarisation when they are subjected to a stress.