Structural Steel

Steel-frame buildings can provide excellent seismic performance when properly designed and detailed. However, earthquakes subject steel members and connections to repeated cycles of tension, compression, bending, and shear. Inadequate design, detailing, fabrication, or construction can lead to several steel-specific failure modes. General Steel-Frame Failures 1. Beam-Column Connection FailureBeam-column connections in moment-resisting frames experience large cyclic bending moments and shear forces. Modern seismic connections are specifically […] Read More

According to stats published by AWS – American Welding Society, 320,000 welders will be needed in the US by 2029. The American welding industry is currently at a critical turning point as a massive wave of retirements meets an increasing demand for new infrastructure and manufacturing. In 2024, there were approximately 771,000 professionals working in the trade across the United States. However, more than 157,000 […] Read More

This is one of the posts in a series of our posts that we discuss failures. Also check out the other posts in constructmagazine.com, where we discuss failures in different contexts of civil engineering. A Brief Introduction of Earthquakes vs. Structures: Earthquakes are very important aspect of most design in civil engineering, and for any type of structure. The fundamental earthquake principles as it applies […] Read More

Structural engineering is a major branch of civil engineering, and realistically the first thing that comes to mind of many, when the words civil engineering are mentioned. It deals with designing the body of all types of structures and their supplementary components, connections, attachments per the criteria given in codes, to ensure public comfort and safety. As we mentioned in the previous post in Construct […] Read More

Pipes are inseparable components of industrial facilities which produce all the products we use in our daily life. In this article, we talk about one of the relatively less known type of structures, pipe supports, which don’t get the attention they deserve as other structures but by no means less important, as they carry and hold pipes safely in their place. Although at first a […] Read More