Several significant updates have been added to the new edition of Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, Standards ASCE/SEI 7-16. The recently released ...

Steel or RCC? This article breaks down how each material performs under stress, with insights into flexibility, seismic response, and real-world design trade-offs.

The reality that more structures fail during construction than after completion spurred forensic engineer Robert Ratay, who died Jan. 3 in Manhattan, to champion the first load design standard for ...

A new study published in Engineering presents an innovative computational method for predicting the distribution of blast loads on complex 3D buildings using graph neural networks. The research, led ...

From blast wave physics to UHPC concrete and polyurea coatings, this article explores how layered design strategies help ...

Design by Sara Fang. Buy this photo. Origami is the art of paper folding, where people can make cranes, flowers and other objects out of paper. But Evgueni Filipov, associate professor of civil and ...

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Concrete support node with carbon fiber-reinforced plastic hull. Photo Credit: Larissa Born, University of Stuttgart (ITFT), Institute for Textile and Fiber Technologies An interdisciplinary research ...

Tree forks are naturally engineered structural connections that work as cantilevers in trees, which means that they have the potential to transfer force very efficiently thanks to their internal fiber ...