Welcome To Workshed

Welcome to Workshed – we strive to be the world’s largest and best collection of high quality learning materials for engineering students, lecturers and teachers.

Workshed is a simple way to access civil and structural engineering educational resources on the web. We provide a wide range of high quality learning materials for engineers and students – making it easy for you to access the resources you need.

Virtual Materials Lab

Learn about the behaviour of common construction materials with our collection of videos, images, downloads and links.

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Video showing float glass failing under application of an impact load.

Materials

Float glass – failure under impact load

Video showing failure by plate tearing of a bolted steel connection.

Materials

Bolted steel connection – failure by plate tearing

The first video in the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics videos – everything a civil engineer really needs to know about soil mechanics.

Materials

Introduction to Soil Mechanics

Simulators: Interactive Structural Models

This collection of interactive simulators and models will help you learn about important engineering principles.

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PushMePullMe3D allows you to build, push and pull your own structures in glorious 3D powered by our latest real-time structural solver.

Simulators

PushMePullMe 3D

Catastrophe is an interactive app that lets you manipulate structural forms – helping you understand how structures respond to being loaded.

Simulators

Catastrophe

Push Me Pull Me is an interactive app that lets you manipulate structural forms. The tool helps you understand how structures respond to being loaded.

Simulators

Push Me Pull Me

People: Civil Engineers

This section of Workshed provides information about important figures – past and present – responsible for the creation of our built environment.

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Robert Stephenson, although often overshadowed by his father George, Robert was responsible for the famous Rocket locomotive.

People

Robert Stephenson

Sir Alan Harris was a pioneer of British prestressed concrete.

People

Sir Alan Harris

Thomas Telford is revered as the founder of modern civil engineering.

People

Thomas Telford

Great Engineering Projects

Our projects section is stuff full of rich archive materials about significant construction projects.

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This video explores the technical challenges of building Frank Gehry’s complex 2008 Serpentine Pavilion.

Projects

Gehry Serpentine Pavilion

The Millennium Bridge in London is the first Thames crossing since Tower Bridge in 1894 and a complex piece of engineering.

Projects

Millennium Bridge

Archive footage and information about the structure and construction of the Sydney Opera House, thought by many at the time to be ‘unbuildable’

Projects

Sydney Opera House

The Engineers Toolkit

The Toolbox contains tools for design and techniques for construction.

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In this video Anderson Inge talks about sketching for engineers & architects.

Toolbox

Anderson Inge’s Sketchbook: Drawing for Engineers

Over the past ten years we have compiled a list of rules of thumbs, data about important materials, approximate costs and approaches to design. We call this the Engineer’s Toolbox.

Toolbox

The Engineer’s Toolbox

Engineers are asked to consider the impacts of construction on the environment, in particular with respect to greenhouse gas emissions.

Toolbox

Impacts of Construction

Games

Here is a collection of games about designing and constructing our built environment.

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Catastrophe is an interactive app that lets you manipulate structural forms – helping you understand how structures respond to being loaded.

Games

Catastrophe

Engineering Mastermind is a quiz that tests your engineering knowledge. Sign up to collect awards and compete against friends and classmates to become an Engineering Mastermind!

Games

Engineering Mastermind

We’ve collated bridge building games from around the web. Test your initiative and engineering skills