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 ...

Amid a rescue mission now in its fifth day, engineers and government officials are trying to determine how a Surfside, Florida, condominium tower crashed to the ground, seemingly without warning.

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 ...

When board members for the Champlain Towers South condominium building were looking for someone to oversee a massive and urgent repair project in late 2019, they turned to an engineer already ...

DEAR TIM: My relatives want to repair failing decorative iron columns and short, stubby brick pillars that are part of a front porch on a home that’s about 100 years old. A giant section of the ...

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 ...

Reuters. A general view of a coal mine, during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo ...

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 ...

ASK THE BUILDER | It’s important to realize you’re dealing with people’s lives, and death and serious injury can result when you install joist hangers, beams and support columns the wrong way.

The main goal in this project was to study the behavior of Concrete-Filled Double-Skin Tube (CFDST) columns subjected to fire following earthquake scenarios. For this purpose, the behavior of CFDST ...

A family suing the Champlain Towers South condo association names the engineering firm that performed a 2018 structural analysis of the building as a defendant, arguing the firm should have more ...