SAN DIEGO (AP) — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego rocked and rattled a six-story steel frame building on a giant shake table Wednesday to see how the structure would withstand ...

Hot-dip galvanised substrate is produced on continuous zinc coating lines from either cold-rolled (thickness range 0.27mm to 2. mm) or hot-rolled (thickness 2.01mm to 3.0mm) steel substrate in coil ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

JONESBORO, AR -- When mother nature strikes no structure is truly stable, but there are some that can protect more than others. The Aramark building in Jonesboro was hit by a tornado on Tuesday. That ...

When businesses, farmers, and property owners evaluate their building options, they are looking for the same basic out ...

Modern steel buildings have long been considered among the most sturdy in the event of a major earthquake. But a model of a massive quake in Southern California has sparked debate among scientists and ...

The tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator started moving slowly, swaying and twisting. The 10-story, 100-foot structure was experiencing simulations of real earthquakes, ...

Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a far newer building, located just ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has released the first-ever set of U.S. recommendations for hybrid steel frames with mass timber floors, according to a news release. Design Guide ...