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LEAKS from the US’ own intelligence services have debunked President Donald Trump’s boast that the 30,000-pound GBU-57 ...
A trio of sweeping green roofs characterise this agricultural museum in Fujian Province, designed by Chinese studio Atelier ...
On Sunday, beginning at 10 p.m., travelers will encounter a full overnight closure of the roadway at Rocky Creek so that ...
Concrete is all around us, and we haven’t quite wrapped our heads around it. Understanding its history more clearly, the Skyscraper Museum’s new exhibition in Manhattan implies, just might help us ...
They are commonly used in reinforced concrete (RC) buildings throughout the world to facilitate a change in column grid, for example as ground floor podium slabs in mixed-use tower blocks, or at ...
THE fundamental ideas behind the design of reinforced concrete structures are simple and can be stated in a few elementary formulæ. The author of the present volume, which appeared first in 1922 ...
Reading time: 1 minute The slenderness ratio of a reinforced concrete (RC) column is the ratio between the length of the column, its lateral dimensions, and end fixity. It assesses the ability of the ...
To improve the workability of fiber-reinforced concrete, the ACI 544.3 standard offers recommendations and guidance to potentially modify the mix design.
The purpose of this paper is to study whether HRB500 reinforcement can give full play to its high-strength characteristics when it is used as stirrup of frame column, analyze the degradation law and ...
When the National Bank of Kuwait first conceived its new headquarters more than a decade ago, it wanted to make a statement about passive design with a soaring tower that could withstand the extreme ...