A real-time hybrid fire simulation algorithm is developed and tested to capture the expected behaviour of a steel column within a structural frame, considering the slow thermal expansion of the stiff ...

Metal building system builders have an option to use straight columns or tapered columns to hold up the structure. In many metal building applications, straight columns may have more steel than they ...

A project to build a 20-story hospital tower on the Henry Ford Health campus in Detroit has marked a worldwide first with placement of four W14x1000 steel columns installed at the bracing core at the ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

DRAFT NIGHT, A KMBC NINE NEWS INVESTIGATION IS GETTING RESULTS. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. I’M KRIS KETZ AND I’M LARA MORITZ. TONIGHT WE ARE TRACKING WORK ON A FIRE SAFETY SYSTEM AT A DOWNTOWN HIGH RISE ...