In the world of construction, reinforced concrete platforms are essential for ensuring stability and durability in a variety of structures, from bridges to skyscrapers. To create the most solid and ...

Wood is relatively affordable and readily available, offering a cost-effective solution for homebuilding. Contractors are familiar with wood construction techniques. In addition, building codes and ...

As a Swiss company with over a century of expertise in precision engineering, Jakob Rope Systems understands that the best ...

When most Americans imagine a home, they picture a wood-framed house. But in an era of high housing costs and extreme weather ...

Concrete cracks are no small matter. Over time, these fractures can grow, letting in water, gas, and pollution. This leads to corrosion, weakens the structure, and in the worst cases, causes collapse.

Newly developed ultrasonic imaging technology for large concrete elements, based on tomographic reconstruction, is presented. The developed 3-D internal images (velocity tomograms) are used to detect ...

For infrastructure health monitoring, defects in concrete are periodically inspected by hammering test. Conventional hammering inspection is manually conducted to detect internal concrete defects by ...

Still in an active construction zone, the concrete facility is a 160-foot, 3-million-gallon water storage tank that is on schedule to begin operating as early as late December, officials said.

ABSTRACT When used as a surface layer on permeable pavements, pervious concrete promotes water percolation, thus helping urban water runoff management. Water percolation occurs due to its porous ...

South Korea: Expert says concrete wall plane crashed into is 'verging on criminal' There were just two survivors, while 179 people were killed in the country's worst aviation disaster.

However, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap, the concrete structure contained a navigation system known as a localizer, which helps when landing planes. It was four meters high to ensure its ...

Aviation analysts are considering several factors that might have contributed to a deadly plane crash in South Korea, including a concrete structure near the runway that the airliner slammed into ...