List of Contributions

Dear Davy, thanks for bringing this matter to our attention. Nowadays, Fire design in construction considers passive or active methods. Nevertheless, those are methods based on "recipes" that are one-fit-all. Fire design should be considered in the architectural design, assuring the proper materials, ...

Dear Ahmad, I suggest you take a look at two different ideas: 1. Structural supports for containers in industrial buildings, so the container storage optimizes the available space in the ports. It involves transportation because you have to delve into the line theory to optimize the rotation of containers. ...

Dear Vijaya, seismic drifts are evaluated with non-reduced seismic loads (without R) for the Colombian case. You can use load combinations (including seismic load case), but vertical loads, by nature, will reduce lateral displacement. A conservative way to evaluate drifts is only considering the non-reduced ...

Dear Alex, to answer your question, it is required much more information. Do you have drawings of the structure? To analyze columns stability, provide the column length and materials used. Regards, AG ------------------------------ Andres Guzman D.Eng., MEng, Ing., M.ASCE Associate Professor ...

Hi Christian, Definitively, timber should be a material to be considered more widely soon. Here I found this interesting video of what is being made in the USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEewgo99tRc The European experience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6JTJWY_uag) and East experience (joint ...