When project teams debate the relative merits of steel and concrete building frames, design quality is seldom the only criterion. Construction time and cost are usually paramount considerations. The ...

Under a £282 million (~$381 million) project, the National Composites Center (NCC, Bristol, U.K.) and construction company Skansa (Stockholm, Sweden) are trialing an “industry-first” low-carbon ...

A corrosion-free composite rebar-reinforced floor slab, based on a lab-tested glass fiber-reinforced polymer rebar-specific punching shear equation, which performs like a steel-reinforced slab at a ...

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

Keywords: Nuclear power plants, reinforced concrete walls, missile impact, finite elements, LS-DYNA Abstract: The overarching goal of the research project was to validate a numerical model for the ...

Concrete is an integral part of any construction project, whether you are building roads, a a ground floor in your private home, or a power plant. This is because concrete is very durable, but it can ...

Roughly two-thirds of the backyard of our new house is covered with concrete slab and so I thought I would go our there and break it up with a sledgehammer in advance of putting in a new garden. The ...