Driveways, roads, sidewalks, airport runways, piers and jetties for heavy shipping, and buildings area all made of it. Civil engineering students even have competitions where they race canoes made...
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Back in the early 19th century, engineers started to get serious about using wrought and cast iron for construction, but they had a huge problem to surmount: making wrought and cast iron in...
Have you ever had to chip a thick layer of ice off a car to get in, only to then have to run it for an hour with the heat on full blast to get the windshield cleared? If you're from a colder...
Image by David Mark from Pixabay No one wants their building to collapse, but constructing buildings to withstand overly-harsh loading conditions can make them so expensive that they never get...
It seems every time a big wind storm comes through, or the snow gets deep, or rains make soils heavy, a few buildings collapse. When big events like strong hurricanes, earthquakes, or tornados...
If you're not accustomed to designing buildings in more mountainous regions of the United States, the addition of a "Site Elevation Factor" to the design wind load equations in ASCE 7-16 may have...