Owners, designers and contractors are always looking for ways to build smarter and better. A new method for strengthening concrete shear walls has the potential not only to remove significant ...

A structural engineer is poised to be the first to use steel fibers as structural reinforcing in the lateral-force-resisting system of a concrete-framed high-rise in a seismic zone. The application, ...

A group of researchers mimicked the compression of a traditional French coffee-making press to characterize the dewatering properties of natural fiber suspensions. The removal of water from dense ...