Structural analysis is considered as a base of any construction project. It is a process that examines the physical integrity of any building structure. It is wise to analyze everything about your building structure before you actually start building it. This will make future construction activities a lot easier.
How your building structure will be, how it will react to certain external factors are the most common questions for any professional. Structural analysis – a calculation about behavior of any building with respect to certain laws and methods gives the perfect answer to such questions. It gives general information such as:
o Calculation of deformations
o Internal forces – how your building will react against heavy internal forces between various building components like beams, windows, stairs etc
o Stresses – How much capable is your building to deal with stresses
o Loads – Predicting about how well any building will withstand internal loads as well as external loads
o External forces – Structural analysis will give you detailed information about how your building will face external forces
This information is based on set of physical laws and mathematics required to study and predict the behavior of structures. Builders, contractors and engineers depend on structure analysis to render structurally sound plans and models. To implement an accurate structural analysis a user must determine information regarding structural loads, geometry, support conditions, and materials properties. In this way, one can easily build a behavior.
Also structural analysis has many applications to offer to construction industry such as:
• Use in structural steel plate girder, truss girder, gantries, industrial sheds etc.
• Wooden structures like fish repair centers, sheds, residential structures etc.
• Pre-stressed and Post-tensioned structures like parking structures
• Deteriorated structures
• Composite structures
Above mentioned applications of structural analysis reduce work load of builders, contractors and engineers. They become more familiar with their proposed building structure's behavior.