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Civil Engineering Questions and answers what is considered to be the oldest field in engineering? - ANS-civil engineering what is the mission of civil engineering? - ANS-to build safe facilities that meet needs of society in what type of projects are civil engineers involved in? - ANS-public works projects what are designs used to control? - ANS-natural resources What are 6 sub fields of civil engineering? - ANS-structural engineering environmental engineering water resources engineering transportation engineering construction engineering geomatics engineering What is the oldest and largest civil engineering society ? - ANS-ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) What must all areas of civil engineering have a good understanding of? - ANS-structures define structural loads - ANS-the force a structure must withstand what are the 2 main types of loads? - ANS-static and dynamic loads structures in a state of equilibrium can do what? - ANS-oppose external force and transfer load throughout the stuctrue What are different types of structural forces? - ANS-compression tension shear force torsion bending force what do beams do - ANS-used to resist bending transmit loads to columns what do columns do - ANS-vertical structural members transmit load from above

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Civil Engineering
Questions and answers

what is considered to be the oldest field in engineering? - ANS-civil engineering

what is the mission of civil engineering? - ANS-to build safe facilities that meet needs of
society

in what type of projects are civil engineers involved in? - ANS-public works projects

what are designs used to control? - ANS-natural resources

What are 6 sub fields of civil engineering? - ANS-structural engineering
environmental engineering
water resources engineering
transportation engineering
construction engineering
geomatics engineering

What is the oldest and largest civil engineering society ? - ANS-ASCE (American
Society of Civil Engineers)

What must all areas of civil engineering have a good understanding of? - ANS-
structures

define structural loads - ANS-the force a structure must withstand

what are the 2 main types of loads? - ANS-static and dynamic loads

structures in a state of equilibrium can do what? - ANS-oppose external force and
transfer load throughout the stuctrue

What are different types of structural forces? - ANS-compression
tension
shear force
torsion
bending force

what do beams do - ANS-used to resist bending
transmit loads to columns

what do columns do - ANS-vertical structural members
transmit load from above

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