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

Great structural design isn’t about hiding strength, it’s about celebrating it. When structure becomes a statement, the home ...

If you visit Denge, a former Royal Air Force base on the Eastern coastline of Kent, England, you’ll find three enormous concrete structures. Two of the structures resemble a hollow ball, cut in half ...

Swedish scientists have studied models to help road and bridge maintenance engineers work out how much damage salting the roads in winter might cause to steel-reinforced concrete structures. Swedish ...

Perched on the hillside of Whistler Mountain—one of North America’s top ski resorts—the 20,000 sq. ft. (1,800 sq. m) Kadenwood residence complies with stringent energy efficiency and seismic ...

When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. AAR damages concrete structures all ...