The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft recently chose to use SIGLAPLUS® laminated safety glass from FLACHGLAS Wernberg for the renovation of the facade at its Munich…
The upshot for U.S. homeowners is that moisture damage due to failed sealants is responsible for much of the $65 billion to $80 billion they collectively shell…
The glass envelope encasing the bridge consists of curved panels of laminated glass made with DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayer, specified by the structural…
Ray Cook, assistant professor of civil engineering at UNH, can discuss the science behind this winter’s many roof collapses and give advice for preventing them.
In a paper published today in the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, researchers Reginald R. DesRoches, Kimberly E. Kurtis and Joshua J. Gresham say…
Finley Charney (http://www.cee.vt.edu/index.php do=view&content=0&apps=2&level=2&id=17&pid=e0577ab728bb4dee2bd802ecb54abd3f), a structural engineering…
To help find an answer, Johns Hopkins researchers have been awarded a three-year $923,000 National Science Foundation grant to study how seismic forces affect…
Finley Charney, a structural engineering associate professor in the civil and environmental engineering department, and Mahendra Singh, the Preston Wade…
In a new research project “Urban Aspirations in Global Cities”, headed by Peter van der Veer, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of…
When testing is complete and the technology implemented, the system might allow a technician working for a day to produce a better analysis of a bridge’s…
Pedro Alvarez and colleagues note that nanomaterials likely will have a greater impact on the construction industry than any other sector of the economy,…
Very much of the activity at companies and public enterprises is organized as projects. Project management has become an established field.We have learned much…
The structural interlayer, which is used in minimally-framed panels of laminated glass to form a rail around the lounge, provides greater strength, stiffness…
CircUse web site: http://www.circuse.eu First newsletter: http://www.difu.de/sites/difu.de/files/CircUse_Flyer_June_2010.pdfIn many European cities and…
The data sets will ensure that architects, engineers, emergency planners and others involved in building design have a strong technical basis for safer, more…
Urban flood protectionClimate change and, more especially, the economic expansion of the last few decades have meant that existing flood protection systems in…
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