Axion Structural Design Services

🔹 Recent Project Highlight – Tekla Structural Detailing for Warehouse Steel Structure 🔹

We are pleased to share one of our recently completed detailing projects!
Our team successfully modelled and detailed a full steel warehouse structure using Tekla Structures 2025, ensuring complete accuracy and seamless fabrication workflows.

📌 Scope of Work Completed:
✔️ Full 3D modelling of the warehouse steel structure
✔️ Preparation of Assembly Drawings with precise connection detailing
✔️ Generation of Single-Part Drawings for fabrication
✔️ Numbering, checking, and output of all required shop drawings
✔️ Ensuring compliance with fabrication standards and construction sequences

Using Tekla 2025 allowed us to deliver a highly coordinated and clash-free model, reducing fabrication errors and improving workshop efficiency.

If you require steel structural design, detailing, or fabrication-ready deliverables, feel free to contact us.

Finite Element Modelling (FEM) for Accurate & Reliable Structural Design

In all our structural design projects, we perform detailed Finite Element Analysis (FEM) to verify load paths, stress distribution, deflections, and overall system behaviour under both SLS (Serviceability Limit State) and ULS (Ultimate Limit State) conditions.

This ensures every design is safe, economical, and technically sound.

🔍 Our FEM Workflow Includes:

Verification of dead, live, wind, seismic, impact, and dynamic loads

Checking stresses, bending moments, shear forces, crack widths, and deflections

Ensuring structure meets performance requirements under both SLS & ULS

Identifying critical load combinations before final design

Providing optimized reinforcement and steel member sizing

🖥 Sample FEM Applications in Our Projects:

🔹 Bridge Deck Grillage Analysis – CSI Bridge
Used for longitudinal & transverse load distribution, deck behaviour, and load path verification.

🔹 Pier & Abutment Modelling – SAP2000
To evaluate soil–structure interaction, moment/axial demand, shear distribution, and stability.

🔹 Building Structural Modelling – ETABS
Full 3D frame analysis for multi-storey buildings including wind, seismic and gravity loads.

🔹 Foundation Analysis – CSI SAFE
Punching shear, settlement checks, slab/raft behaviour and soil pressure verification.

FEM allows us to see how a structure behaves before construction begins—ensuring accuracy, safety, and long-term performance.

If you need an FEM-based verification or structural design for your project, feel free to share your drawings or models.

📩 Message anytime for engineering support or consultancy.

🏭 Machine Foundation Design – Steel Mechanical Cutter | Gampaha

We recently completed the structural design of a machine foundation for a steel mechanical cutter installed inside a large-scale warehouse in the Gampaha District.

This type of equipment generates continuous operational vibration, so the foundation was designed with special attention to dynamic behaviour and long-term performance.

🔧 Key Design Aspects:

Structural design carried out using Eurocodes (EN 1992, EN 1997, etc.)

Natural frequency check of the foundation system using Eurocode 8 (EC8) principles

Comparison of foundation natural frequency vs operating frequency of the machine

Control of vibration, serviceability and comfort for workers

Design of reinforcement and anchorage to resist dynamic and impact loads

A properly designed machine foundation helps to:
✅ Reduce vibration and noise
✅ Improve machine performance and lifespan
✅ Protect the warehouse structure and floor slab
✅ Provide a safer working environment

If you are planning to install heavy industrial machines (cutters, presses, mixers, crushers, etc.), a proper engineering-based foundation design is essential.

📩 Send your machine datasheet or layout anytime for a professional foundation design solution.

School Building Foundation Design – Gampaha

We recently completed the structural foundation design for a new school building project in the Gampaha area, based on the recommendations provided in the geotechnical investigation report.

Due to the weak soil conditions at the site, the cylinder sinking method was selected as the most suitable foundation system. This method ensures:

🔹 High load-carrying capacity
🔹 Safe transfer of structural loads to deeper, stable soil layers
🔹 Reduced settlement
🔹 Long-term durability for heavily loaded educational buildings

Scope of Our Work

✔ Selection of foundation system
✔ Structural design of sinking cylinders
✔ Reinforcement detailing
✔ Load distribution & settlement checks
✔ Coordination with Geotechnical engineer and contractor

This project highlights the importance of choosing the right foundation type according to soil behavior—especially in areas with soft clay and variable ground conditions like Gampaha.

If you need professional structural support for foundations, school buildings, or public projects, we are ready to assist.

📩 Message us anytime for consultations or design inquiries.

Consulting a New House Project in Kurunegala?

We offer complete engineering consultancy services to ensure your home is structurally safe, durable, and built according to approved standards.

Our Consultancy Services Include:

🔹 Review of architectural plans
🔹 Full structural design (foundation, beams, columns, slab)
🔹 Bill of Quantities (BOQ) & material guidance
🔹 Site visits during construction
🔹 Technical advice to your builder
🔹 Rectification solutions for onsite issues
🔹 Preparation of structural reports for approvals

All designs are prepared using Eurocodes and Sri Lankan Standards to ensure long-term safety and performance.

If you’re planning to start your house construction in the Kurunegala area, we are ready to guide you from the first drawing to the final stage.

📩 Send your house plan anytime and receive a professional structural solution.

Steel Structural Design & Detailing Services – Sri Lanka

Planning to build a steel structure or warehouse?
We provide complete engineering solutions from concept to fabrication.

Our Steel Engineering Services:

🔹 Portal frame & warehouse design
🔹 Industrial building steel layouts
🔹 Column, beam & rafter design
🔹 Bracing systems (X, K, portal bracing)
🔹 Connection design – bolted & welded
🔹 Base plate & anchor bolt design
🔹 Full fabrication drawings & detailing
🔹 Bill of materials (BOM) preparation

All designs are carried out using:
✔ Eurocode 3
✔ Sri Lankan standards
✔ Tekla Structures / CAD-based detailing
✔ Professional load combinations & wind analysis

Whether you’re a contractor, fabricator, architect, or client—
Send us your layout or concept drawing, and we will provide the complete steel design package.

📩 Contact us anytime for quotations or project support.

RCC Structural Design & Certification
Looking for a qualified structural engineer for your house or building project?
We provide complete structural design solutions for residential, commercial, and renovation projects.
Our Services Include:
🔹 Foundation design
🔹 Column / Beam / Slab design
🔹 2–5 storey house structural designs
🔹 Commercial building design & detailing
🔹 Renovation, extension & rectification approvals
🔹 Site visits, inspections & professional reporting
All designs are carried out in strict compliance with Eurocodes, ICTAD, and Sri Lankan engineering standards.
Whether it’s a new house, an extension, or a commercial project—
Send us your building plan anytime, and we will take care of the structural design.
📩 Message now for quotations or inquiries.

Welcome to my official page!

I am Dineka Somaweera, a Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng, IESL) specializing in structural design, building approvals, consultancy, and site inspections in Colombo and surrounding areas.

I provide:
✔ House & building structural designs
✔ Renovation & extension approvals
✔ Structural certification
✔ FEM analysis - SAP2000 / MIDAS / CSI Bridge
✔ Consultancy & Site visit reports
✔ Fast service & trusted engineering

📩 Contact me anytime for inquiries or quotations.