The Wind Load Shear Wall Calculator is a shear wall design calculator for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It is a tool for engineers, architects, and builders, as well as students to design shear walls to ...

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 ...

Keywords: In-span plastic hinge; Experimental; Steel plate shear walls; Seismic performance; Deterioration and failure modes; Deterioration model; Collapse potential; Collapse fragility curve; Seismic ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Finite element (FE) analyses. Infill plates. Perforations. Fine mesh models. Shear strength. Frame deformations. Local buckling. Stress distribution. Strip ...

An intensive seven-year effort by NASA researchers led to a sophisticated wind-shear detection and avoidance system that is just now boarding commercial aircraft in volume. Ever since the Wright ...

In my previous column, I noted that the shear strength and shear stiffness of the core material in a sandwich panel can be determined in situ while performing flexural tests to evaluate other sandwich ...

Darryl Shear says his passion for architecture began when he was two years old. As a young boy, he would build Lego ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland use laser-doppler anemometry to measure velocities of a rotor and material in a mixing vat, and then verify results with a CFD (computational fluid-dynamics) ...

two reality series: the hairstyling competition Shear Genius and the interior design show Top Design. Magical Elves, the production outfit behind Top Chef and Project Runway, will be taking over ...