For over a century, wood pole structures have been used to support overhead powerlines. Over time, as the utility industry expanded, the basic wood pole structure has evolved, but regardless of ...

In this work, the collapse ultimate load of a prefabricated reinforced concrete column–steel beam composite frame structure was studied. During the study, the “new RCS beam-to-column joint” was used ...

Frame structures are typically used in environments that are not excessively demanding, for example where seismic activity is not particularly high (such as in Spain or Italy); they are popular due to ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

Keywords: hybrid simulation, collapse assessment, steel moment frames, steel gravity frames, integration methods, substructuring technique Abstract: This report presents two series of hybrid ...

Topping out construction on an office building isn't usually much of a headliner. But the structural completion of a Frisco building is different. It's the first timber commercial building ...

“To combine the need for insulation and the desire to maintain the existing brick facade, a transparent glass protective ‘raincoat’ will be wrapped around the existing warehouse and the new extension ...