This first structure, without haunches, represents an older concrete building with connecting columns and beams that have not been reinforced to withstand seismic activity. The researchers then ...

Another key element structural engineers must consider is redundancy: how to design and build multiple reinforcements for key beams and columns so the loss of, say, an exterior column due to an ...

On Friday, the city said an engineer misdiagnosed a structural column as decorative. “To hear that it was this class of mistake calls into question the ways we are scrutinizing our professionals ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. ... three structural engineers told Insider. ... or even a truck backing up into a weight-bearing column in the building's basement, Hamburger said.

Experimental setup showing slip-shear mechanism used as PS in lieu of a structural steel column. Real-time hybrid simulation, or dynamic substructuring, is an innovative technology only recently ...

MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) -- An engineer "misdiagnosed" a load-bearing column as decorative, leading to the partial collapse of a Bronx apartment building last week, city investigators revealed ...

NEW ORLEANS — A structural engineer who helped demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel last year says video of the deadly disaster shows the building’s steel failed at the 16th floor ...