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News - 24 May 2007

London based Pyramid Builders have developed an idea for increasing the lateral load resistance of large blockwork walls and carried out full scale tests at CERAM. In a preliminary phase of the...

CERAM Relieves the Load for Glasgow Gallery

News - 11 Apr 2006

Wanting to do extensive refurbishment work to the splendid Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, but not sure how well the old building would stand up to it and the extra load it would hold was a...

BASF Develops New Load Floor With Dayton Polymeric Products, Georgia-Pacific

News - 20 Sep 2005

BASF’s Automotive Polyurethane Systems business developed an advanced composite for automotive load floors with Dayton Polymeric Products, Dayton, Ohio, and Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., that...

ASHRAE Proposes Load Calculation Standard for Buildings

News - 18 May 2005

Engineers throughout the industry rely on multiple heating and cooling load calculation methods to accurately determine system and equipment sizes for buildings of varying size, materials and...

Concrete Towers Being Designed and Tested for Wind Turbines

News - 17 May 2013

Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked every one with...

Empa's Investigation on the Use of Silicon in the Semiconductor Industry

News - 12 Oct 2009

Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very different...

Lutron Electronics and Hubbell Wiring Device-Kellems Partner to Address New Building Code Requirements

News - 8 Nov 2013

Hubbell Wiring Device-Kellems (“Hubbell”), a leading manufacturer of electrical devices and energy management products, and Lutron Electronics, the leader in energy-saving, wireless light...

Shake-Table Test Provides New Insights into Dynamic Behavior of RC-URM Wall Structures

News - 4 Jul 2013

Shake-table test on a 4-storey building at half-scale With the introduction of higher seismic design forces in the Swiss loading standard of 2003 most unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings failed to...

Alcoa Provides Pathway to Super Bowl XXXIX

News - 26 May 2005

Alcoa announced that Presto Products Company, a business of Alcoa Consumer Products, provided the walkways for the 100,000 fans that filtered into Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, FL to watch the...

Mood Ring Materials to be Used for Detecting Damage in Failing Infrastructure

News - 22 Nov 2016

“Mood ring materials” are likely to play a significant role in reducing and mitigating damage to the failing infrastructure around the country. The American Society of Civil Engineers...

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