Recently added articles from Concrete International:
University of Nevada, Reno, wins 2008 National Concrete Canoe Competition
Oct 01, 2008; Anonymous ... University of Wisconsin-Madison's 5-year winning streak snapped To the average passerby, the June canoe race held in Montreal's Olympic Basin may have looked like any other race. But upon closer inspection, the competitors and their canoes would look far from ordinary. They were ...
Concrete Q & A: Welding to Embedded Plates
Oct 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Q. We're designing some steel brackets that will project from the face of a wall panel to support a structural steel platform. Because the face of the panel that supports the bracket will be cast facing down, the fabricator would rather install an embedded plate that has a face that is flush ...
Phase One of Wind Project Winds Down
Oct 01, 2008; Demuynck, Annelies; Gunst, Nathalie ... Precast foundations anchor offshore turbines Near the end of July 2008, the first wind turbine was set at the Thornton Bank Wind Farm, located in the North Sea on a 20 km (12.4 mile) long sand bank near the border between Belgium and the Netherlands. This marked a major milestone for an ...
Strengthening by External Prestressing
Oct 01, 2008; Jeyasehar, C Antony; Mohankumar, G ... Performance evaluation of prestressed concrete beams with corrosion damage Compared with conventional reinforced concrete structures, prestressed concrete structures are assumed to be more corrosion resistant because of the use of high-strength materials and the crack-free nature brought ...
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Oct 01, 2008; Nasvik, Joe ... Taking as-cast construction to a new level When you attend the ACI Fall 2008 Convention in St. Louis, MO, I strongly suggest you find some time to visit the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Designed by Tadao Ando of Osaka, Japan, this building is a masterpiece in concrete executed by ...
ACI Officer Nominations for 2009-2010
Oct 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Barth for President, Hover for Vice President, and four new Directors For 2009, Florian G. Barth has been nominated to serve as President of the American Concrete Institute. Barth is the Founder and former President of FBA, Inc., a structural engineering firm with offices in the San ...
PCI Honors Excellence in Precast Design
Oct 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Innovation in action is a common characteristic of the winning projects in the 46th Annual Design Awards Competition of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI). Nine projects were selected in the bridges category, 18 projects received awards from the buildings jury, and eight projects ...
2008 PTI Awards
Oct 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) honors outstanding projects that use post-tensioning with its annual awards program. Judges evaluate submitted projects based on creativity, innovation, ingenuity, cost effectiveness, functionality, constructibilty, and aesthetics. The 2008 winners include one ...
Vertical Integration at Vanderbilt University
Oct 01, 2008; Schwarz, Otto J ... Post-tensioned transfer truss system allows medical center to expand above existing auditorium As part of an initiative to increase its ranking among medical research institutions, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has undertaken a major expansion project. A key component ...
Practical Finite Element Analysis
Oct 01, 2008; Shin, Myoungsu; Pimentel, Benjamin; Grossman, Jacob ... Issues for an irregular reinforced concrete high-rise building Engineers often face modeling and analysis issues when designing irregular reinforced concrete buildings, as we encountered during the recent design of a 25-story hotel building being constructed together with a 60-story ...
Assessing Vibrations
Oct 01, 2008; West, Jeffrey S; Innocenzi, Matthew J; Ulloa, Fernando V; Poston, Randall W ... Analysis of a long-span post-tensioned concrete structure Live load vibrations of concreteframed structures are generally not an issue due to their inherent stiffness. On rare occasions, however, human perception of vibrations in a concrete structure is of paramount concern. This was the ...