Some floor designs are better suited to specific applications than others. Understanding an owner's or tenant’s requirements is critical to recommending a particular type of design. Factors that ...

Description: Principles of prestressed concrete. Prestressing systems, end anchorage, and loss of prestress. Analysis and design of sections for flexure, shear, bond ...

When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of random cracks that may occur because of concrete shrinkage and temperature restraints, ...

Reflecting changing currents in engineering design and material availability, the American Concrete Institute has updated its 318 standard to ACI 318-25, with a new sustainability guide and updated ...

Keywords: Performance-based designs. Shear-critical squat walls. Reinforced concrete (RC). Nuclear power plants (NPP). Databases. Experimental tests. Peak shear strength. Predictions. Finite element ...

Photosynthetic bacteria in the concrete make it bright green until it dries and turns brown. Courtesy of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Colorado University Boulder A new kind of ...

Walking the floor of the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders Show in Las Vegas this past January, many attendees stopped in their tracks when they came across two ...