Superskycraper
The design for a hypothetical 142-story building advances te real-world challenge for taller and taller superskyscrapers. To be located on the riverbank in Chicago, it is 1,745 ft tall...
High Tech on Campus
Hannan Hall, the new laboratory building at The Catholic University of America, has a structure entirely made up of precast concrete panels and 24 in. deep double tees. The loadbearing...
Orchestral Maneuvers
Symphony Towers is an H-shaped superstructure that straddles Symphony Hall in downtown San Diego. The $143 million project is a 34-story office building to the south of the hall and a...
Expressway Centerpiece
The center span of the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge, better known as the Dame Point Bridge over the St. Johns River at Jacksonville, Fla., is the country's longest cable...
Transmission Line Insulator Assembly Reliability
Transmission line insulator assemblies made up of ceramic or composite insulators and associated hardware are used to mechanically support and electrically isolate energized conductors...
The Fabrication and Erection of the Minneapolis Convention Center
A new convention center is part of the City of Minneapolis' successful plan to maintain an economically strong downtown core. It is the latest addition to a list of civic...
Sizing Techniques for Lateral Bracing
Techniques for determining the size of lateral bracing members in multi-story steel buildings are presented and discussed. Because the design of such bracing is usually controlled by deflection...
Trends in Development of Steel Space Structures in Japan
Trends in recent development of steel spatial structures in Japan are reviewed. Starting from reviewing early development after the World War II, structural systems such as pyramidal roof,...
Design Issues in Steel Buildings
The Committee on Design of Steel Building Structures of the Committee on Metals of the Structural Division of ASCE was formed in 1981, with the express purpose of studying problems that...
Steel Girt Design
Procedures are presented for the design of light gage cold formed girts and hot rolled girts. The effects of continuity, sag rods, and wall sheeting are discussed. Design procedures are...
Floor Vibrations ? Tips for Designers
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a number of practical concepts which can be used to improve the performance of floor systems subject to occupant induced motion from either walking,...
Aestetics of Bridges Constructed by Dopravni Stavby, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
A survey of bridge concepts built in recent years by the State Enterprise Dopravni Stavby, Olomouc that ranks among the largest building trade firms in Czechoslovakia. This firm chooses...
Pure Building
This paper outlines the need for building integration in the design of fabric structures by examining the different necessary components and how they fit together. It provides examples...
Beautiful Bridges and Highways in the West
This paper recounts 75 years of progress in the design of aesthetic bridges and highways in the west. Not a new idea, there are numerous existing examples showing that the goal of good...
Computational Strategies for Finite Element Simulations on Supercomputers with 4 to 65,536 Processors
We present a general approach to the design of next generation finite element software. We describe several parallel computational strategies for both implicit and explicit computations,...
Finite Element Computations on a Linear Systolic Array
This paper describes a linear systolic architecture designed specifically for finite element computations. Examples of various sparse matrix and vector operations are given. Applications...
Applications of Fuzzy Mathematical Programming in Structural Optimization
In this paper, several applications of fuzzy mathematical programming in structural optimization are reviewed and discussed. In addition, a formulation of optimum earthquake resistant...
An Object-Oriented Model for Building Design and Construction
This paper describes the initial work done in developing a modelling environment which captures both functional and spatial aspects of a building, abstract and detailed descriptions, and...
A KBES for Seismic Design of Buildings
A knowledge-based expert system for earthquake resistant design of buildings is described. The knowledge-intensive nature of the domain and the consequent motivation for an expert-system...
BABE: An Expert System for Structural Design of Bridge Abutments and Piers
A knowledge-based expert system named 'BABE' (Bridge and Building Evaluation) has been developed for the purpose of helping the user in planning, analysis and...
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