Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped the design team reduce the total steel by almost 20% for 320 S. Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago's ...

Thanks to a structural-steel hat truss, the 10-story tower of the 240-ft-tall New United States Courthouse, Los Angeles, appears to balance on its core, hovering over the ground as if it were a ...

A real-time hybrid fire simulation algorithm is developed and tested to capture the expected behaviour of a steel column within a structural frame, considering the slow thermal expansion of the stiff ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (July 14, 2014) -- When envisioning a new structure, engineers often have to balance design choices against the environmental impact of materials used. It is estimated that 40 to 50 ...

Like a spider web that flexes to compensate for a broken strand 1, 2, steel truss bridges, which are built from a framework of connected elements, can sometimes withstand the failure of a load-bearing ...