🧪 Engineering Civil Engineering Simulation
Load a reinforced-concrete beam to failure and watch it move through cracking, steel yield and concrete crushing in real time, driven by ACI-style moment-curvature equations. Tune reinforcement ratio, concrete strength and depth to flip the failure mode between ductile and brittle.
This simulation demonstrates fundamental civil engineering concepts of structural stability and material strength by putting a reinforced-concrete beam through a real load test. Drag the reinforcement ratio, concrete strength and section depth, then ramp a midspan point load and watch the beam pass through cracking, steel yield and concrete crushing exactly as governed by ACI-style moment-curvature equations — with the failure mode flipping between a slow, ductile under-reinforced collapse and a sudden, brittle over-reinforced one depending on how much steel you put in the section.
This simulation demonstrates fundamental civil engineering concepts like structural stability and material strength. Users can build and test structures to understand their load-bearing capabilities.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install