Best android apps for Civil Engineers!

Here are some of the best android apps for Civil Engineers. If you are a Civil Engineer, I highly recommend you to install these apps.  You will be able to save significant amount of time in your professional life. And the best part is these apps are all free.

Share these “Best android apps for Civil Engineers” with your friends too. These apps are way too brilliant to save your time and make your work productive. 


1) Autodesk® AutoCAD 360:

Autodesk® AutoCAD 360 is the official AutoCAD® mobile app. This is an official version of Autocad you are using in your PC. It is a free drawing and drafting mobile app which allows you to view, edit, and share AutoCAD drawings anytime, anywhere. It is by far the best Drawing and drafting app in play store. Every civil Engineer must own this app. Though editing on small screens may be little awkward but viewing and reviewing of drawings can be done with ease even in small screen.

Here are some screenshots of Autodesk® AutoCAD 360.

2) Autodesk ForceEffect:

Autodesk ForceEffect is a android app for Civil Engineers to simulate designed concepts in the field or in the office. This app is combination of pen, pencil, papers and calculator. Autodesk ForceEffect does all the simulations. Even engineering calculations will be done for you right on your mobile device. It helps you to quickly and easily simulate designs.Here are some screenshots of this app.

3) AndTruss2D:

AndTruss2D is one of the useful apps for civil engineers. AndTruss2D is mostly used for linear static analysis of plane trusses with the Finite Element Method. This app shows Graphical and textual results of axial forces and stress. You are provided with 20 truss templates which will make your work even faster. Just enter the truss, force and other effects such as deformation and temperature effects, You will get your truss solved within seconnds. After the truss is solved you get the Animated Deformations of the truss. 

Here are some screenshots of AndTruss2D.

4) BeamDesign:

BeamDesign is app developed by letsconstruct. Beam design uses finite element method to design continuous beam. We can input hyper static forces either graphically or textually. We can import any steel profile or general section from our free Engineering Libraries (EU, UK, AU, US & CA profiles) too. This app is feature rich. You can export its result to concrete design app which is app developed by same developer

Here are some screenshots of BeamDesign.

5) ConcreteDesign:

ConcreteDesign is an app which helps civil engineer to determine the amount of reinforcement in a concrete section for preliminary design. This app is integrated with Beamdesign. You don’t need to do lengthy calculations when you are armed with this app.

Swine Flu Prevention Tips!

Swine flu (swine influenza) is a disease of pigs. It is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by one of many Influenza A viruses. Approximately 1% to 4% of pigs that get swine flu die from it. It is spread among pigs by direct and indirect contact, aerosols, and from pigs that are infected but do not have symptoms. In many parts of the world pigs are vaccinated against swine flu. 

Most commonly, swine flu is of the H1N1 influenza subtype. However, they can sometimes come from the other types, such as H1N2, H3N1, and H3N2. 

The current outbreak of swine flu that has infected humans is of the H1N1 type - this type is not as dangerous as some others.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends flu vaccination for all people older than 6 months of age. An H1N1 virus is one component of the seasonal flu shot for 2013-2014. The flu shot also protects against two or three other influenza viruses that are expected to be the most common during the 2013-2014 flu season.

The vaccine will be available as an injection or a nasal spray. The nasal spray is approved for use in healthy people 2 through 49 years of age who are not pregnant.

These measures also help prevent swine flu (H1N1 flu) and limit its spread:

• Stay home if you're sick. If you do have swine flu (H1N1 flu), you can give it to others starting about 24 hours before you develop symptoms and ending about seven days later.
• Wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. Use soap and water, or if they're unavailable, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Flu viruses can survive for two hours or longer on surfaces, such as doorknobs and countertops.
• Contain your coughs and sneezes. Cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze or cough. To avoid contaminating your hands, cough or sneeze into a tissue or the inner crook of your elbow.
• Avoid contact. Stay away from crowds if possible. And if you're at high risk of complications from the flu — for example, you're younger than 5 or you're 65 or older, you're pregnant, or you have a chronic medical condition such as asthma — consider avoiding swine barns at seasonal fairs and elsewhere.
• Reduce exposure within your household. If a member of your household has swine flu, designate only one household member to be responsible for the ill person's personal care.

EASY STEPS TO REMOVE ANNOYING SHORTCUT VIRUS!

In recent days, the most common virus, infecting the removable storage device is a shortcut virus (that is what most people call it). It creates a small .exe or .lnk (windows shortcut) files of the folder in your removable storage device like pen-drives and memory cards. So in this post I will provide step by step guide on how to remove these kind of virus. 

• So I just opened “Folder Option” and unchecked “Hide the Protected System Files” and selected “Show Hidden Files“
• And I i got all my folder and files.
• So basically the virus hide my files as they were system files.
• There is a command that let user to give those kind of attributes to files and folder “attrib”
• Open a “Command Prompt“
• And Select the drive which got infected mine was “F:\” (Just type F: and enter)
• Then use this command “attrib -h -s -i /s /d”
• Command Breakdown :-

• -h : remove hidden attribute from the file/folder
• -s : remove system file attribute from the file/folder
• -i : remove non-index file attribute from the file/folder
• /s : process all files
• /d : process folders as well

Before you run these command be sure to delete all the shortcuts and scan your pen-drive with an antivirus program. There are many variant of the virus some makes .exe files, some make a separate folder and put everything inside it and link it with the shortcuts or exe. Be sure to check your files by following the 1st step and then running the command. If you are infected with this virus then you wont be able to do the above steps follow these steps in safe mode. And remember always disable auto-play from control panel as most of the virus infect your computer with auto-play and always open your pen-drive with right clicking and selecting “Open” option.