The Naval Facilities Engineering Command is getting a new leader. Rear Adm. Wayne G. "Greg" Shear, Jr., will become head of NAVFAC at a change of command ceremony scheduled for Oct. 27 at the ...

The slab-column connections are not part of the lateral system. Though the slab-column connections only take gravity loads, they still have to move with the building as it sways, Shield says. In a ...

NSF and NEES funded large scale low aspect ratio (height/length) reinforced concrete shear wall testing is underway at SEESL. NSF and NEES funded large scale low aspect ratio (height/length) ...

As part of an analytical and experimental study on a proposed self-centering steel plate shear wall (SC-SPSW) system, the behavior of SC-SPSWs was developed investigated using one-third scaled ...