Final year project

[Shehzad Ahmad Khan Gigyani]

I am bachelor student and here i am for some quality advice for my final year project.

I am interested in structure and i want to do project on Design, Seismic and dynamic analysis of multi storey buildng using etabs and sap2000.And can i publish a paper on my project or give me some other good idea or best topic related to structural projects

Kindly guide me   

[WR1]

Tip1: Being ambitious is good and appreciated. But dont go so deeper and end up having an unyielding tough topic making your life harder. Think big, start small. Okay?

For topics in bachelors, let me direct to some; have you thought about these? My suggestion is to think of yourself as the 'future leader' of structural engineering...not just a technical number cruncher....

1. Highlighting the ordinary house construction mistakes and tackling them? like putting more steel always isnt good in a beam, like snap-failure of concrete floors killing people in factories, mosques and homes in pakistan? A sort of guide for public? Could go on publishing in media as well afterwards.

2. Environment? Value engineering/whole life cost, structural engineering solutions in pakistan to protect environment from construction effects??? What are the shortcoming.

3. Rehab of ordinary public homes to protect for future earthquakes?

4. Study of moderately mid to high rise or complex shape buildings that are dynamically sensitive. For example you could consider an important national building (faisal mosque ?) whose shape is very sensitive to dynamic loading (wind/seismic) and how the design was done and what are the your suggestions to improve? or the lessons learnt for future buildings of same kind. 

5. 3d printing, what are the effects and how and at what scale it could be implemented in pak and what type of sector can use it? can we make better and cheap and environmentally friendly homes from it? if not now then may be in future? 

6. structural health monitoring?

7. Preparing tables for beams, slabs that shows economy vs span for ordinary construction in pk? Could be distributed as served as a guide in design offices. For example google 'concrete center' span tables.

8. Structures and Terrorists! How would you protect important buildings in Pakistan from terrorist threat? Evacuation plans and structural engineering, blast resistant, progressive collapse, what material is better? Implementation plan? What are more sensitive national buildings?

 

 

[Sohaib Iqbal]

u can also do project on effect on the strength of structural members by the carbonation increasing content or how to monitor, mitigate existing structures like bridges etc. also give mentainance model for them.

[Sohaib Iqbal]

in country like Pakistan after several years we will look forward in repairing and mentainance instead of new construction. bcz some structures like bridges are our national assests. we have to work that how to upgrade then in different respects like shear , flexure, torsion. we are also facing earthquakes and after shocks. u can work on it that how to convert ordinary building into earthquake resistance by keeping in view our economy.

[TauqeerAlam]

Take a random building 3 or more than 3 storey and analyse and design it with IBC ( Response Spectrum ) and UBC code using Etabs or SAP2000 and compere them. you can also apply Pushover for both and you can easily publish a paper. 

Best of Luck 

[Zartasha Ali]

I am also facing the same thing..plz guide me for final year project related to structures and hydraulics