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I'm sure the world's civil engineers will be pleased to learn that, since they already know the tensile strength of concrete and since they use surveyors to map
by strken 1y ago
I'm sure the world's civil engineers will be pleased to learn that, since they already know the tensile strength of concrete and since they use surveyors to map a site, they're merely assembling bridges and freeways rather than engineering them.
- bluGill 1y agoYou don't need to be a civil engineer to design a single family house. The properties of the common materials like 2x4s are so well known that you need very little training to draw up a print that can be built - you look up in a chart how long a 2x12 can span and so long as you stay under that size your are okay. Now in a typical house the floor and roof use trusses that are engineered because in those areas engineering matters. Even then they are mostly taking a bunch of trusses already designed and putting their stamp on the system working. As buildings get larger/more complex though it becomes harder and harder to build the needed charts. Eventually you need a civil engineer to do a lot of calculation (with the help of a computer) because the building is different enough from anything before.