08-23-2010, 11:53 PM
Thank you once again Mr. Haseeb Jamal both for email and this reply. Keep doing the good work, it is splendid.
About my civil engineering studying: unfortunately there is a problem with standards in my country (Serbia). We are still using the so called JUS standards for civil engineering (wich are in most cases copied german DIN standards). I heard that all of Europe is using the Eurocode one, and that germans are also planning to abandon their DIN, if they haven't done this already.
The problem is also the one that old professors at the Civil engineer faculties in my country, are not willing to teach the Eurocode principles. So the numerous students will still have to wait for a couple of years until this "dinosaurs" go the retirement, and then get a proper teaching of Eurocode at the faculty.
I supose that the structural analysis is the same at DIN and Eurocode (M,T,N diagrams). But the design (of steel, wood and concrete) is completely different. And all the books that I already bought about design of steel, wood and concrete are made by JUS standards.
So it seems that it is pointless of learning from them, I need to start learning from some of books from here. But it is quite difficult for me to learn from the ones at the english language, because there are a huge number of therms, that I do not understand. For example:
hinged joints
bearing strength
yield strength
shear strength
stress
slenderness ratio
deflections
threshold
I tried translating it using a dictionary, but it didn't help. I need to buy some kind of a English Civil engineer dictionary.
About my civil engineering studying: unfortunately there is a problem with standards in my country (Serbia). We are still using the so called JUS standards for civil engineering (wich are in most cases copied german DIN standards). I heard that all of Europe is using the Eurocode one, and that germans are also planning to abandon their DIN, if they haven't done this already.
The problem is also the one that old professors at the Civil engineer faculties in my country, are not willing to teach the Eurocode principles. So the numerous students will still have to wait for a couple of years until this "dinosaurs" go the retirement, and then get a proper teaching of Eurocode at the faculty.
I supose that the structural analysis is the same at DIN and Eurocode (M,T,N diagrams). But the design (of steel, wood and concrete) is completely different. And all the books that I already bought about design of steel, wood and concrete are made by JUS standards.
So it seems that it is pointless of learning from them, I need to start learning from some of books from here. But it is quite difficult for me to learn from the ones at the english language, because there are a huge number of therms, that I do not understand. For example:
hinged joints
bearing strength
yield strength
shear strength
stress
slenderness ratio
deflections
threshold
I tried translating it using a dictionary, but it didn't help. I need to buy some kind of a English Civil engineer dictionary.