The American Concrete Institute announces the availability of a new invaluable publication for concrete industry professionals—the Reinforced Concrete Design Manual. The new two-volume manual provides ...

According to the American Concrete Institute CT-18, fiber-reinforced concrete is a concrete mixture that is reinforced with dispersed, randomly orientated fibers. These fibers can be used in lieu of ...

THE progress of research in all branches of the building industry has inevitably led to the development of new ideas in both design and construction, and to important modifications in recognized ...

Two months ago, the foundation was poured for CUBE, a 2,200-sf, two-story building on the premises of Technical University Dresden in Germany, that claims to be the world’s first building made ...

Concrete is a very durable material. Fine examples of its first structural use by the Romans are still standing, and concrete is now probably the most widely used building material in the world.

Keywords: Shaking Table Tests, Lightly Reinforced Structures, Joint Confinement, Gravity Load Design, Beam Reinforcement, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Failure Mechanisms, Existing Buildings, ...

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has announced that it has added ACI CODE-440.11-22, which sets building code ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2015. Read the original here. Imagine living in the far future, able to look back in time and watch when Roman engineers came up with the arch ...

After having radically transformed many sectors like automotive and aeronautics, digitisation and 3D printing has set sights on revolutionising construction. Today, regulations prohibit building with ...