In the case of office blocks, steel frames with composite floors of concrete on permanent metal shuttering allow for fast-track building to realise early income from office letting. In the domestic ...

The base of the beam is under tension, or stretched, and the top part is under compression, or squeezed. The lower part of ComCon is made using a hollow carbon-fibre composite section, which is very ...

Core walls made of steel-plate boxes goes up with the speed of a steel-framed building, but when filled with concrete they resist seismic and wind forces like a concrete building Oct 26, 2017 ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction has released Design Guide 38, SpeedCore Systems for Steel Structures.. The document pertains to the nonproprietary concrete-filled composite steel plate ...

With this construction method, spans of up to and over 10 m can be achieved with a slenderness of approximately L/30 and masses of around 50 % of the solid construction method. The wood-concrete ...

There is a growing interest in using coupled composite plate shear walls/ concrete-filled (CPSW/CF) for high-rise building construction, particularly to optimize the design for wind and/or seismic ...

When a 12-story condominium building suddenly collapsed last June in Surfside, Florida, one reason was was hiding deep inside the structure. Within its concrete foundation, walls, and floors was a ...