Cold-formed steel portal frames have emerged as a versatile and efficient structural system in modern construction. Their design exploits thin-walled steel sections, which are cold-formed to yield ...

From the buildings people visit, to the homes they live in, to the roads they travel, the structural steel plate is a multipurpose construction material that provides fabrication versatility and ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Retrofitting. Seismic designs. Existing structures. Lateral force resisting systems. Moment strengths. Anchor beams. Multistory structures. Energy dissipation ...

The March 2011 events at Fukushima nuclear power plant have underscored the importance of resiliency of nuclear power plants for beyond-design-basis events, especially seismic related. As a ...

The 19-story 200 Park Avenue project in San Jose, Calif., is taking SpeedCore to the next level by eliminating most of the spray-applied fire protection. SpeedCore. SpeedFloor. SpeedConnection.

A team in earthquake-prone Seattle is daring to deliver an 850-ft-tall “proof of concept” for a composite structural-steel frame, instead of a steel frame around a reinforced concrete core. For the ...