Structural safety

Structural safety

Building codes, building standards, building materials, construction, retrofitting.

Properties exposed to flooding experience up to 50% slower price growth compared to unexposed properties.
Loughborough University
Rising material prices, labour shortages, interest rate hikes and rainy weather have created a perfect storm for the construction industry in the past 12 months, sending many builders to the wall.
University of South Australia
A draft list of San Francisco concrete buildings reveals properties that the city says could be vulnerable to earthquakes and may need costly upgrades.
CNBC
2023
This study presents and utilizes an integrated semiempirical methodology to estimate a sea–land transition wind profile inside the TCBL that considers the impacts of climate change.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Yellow building collapsed after an earthquake.
After Christchurch earthquakes, the engineering community was alarmed at the performance failures of modern buildings. One design initiative to come from the destruction and loss in New Zealand was to build structures with functional recovery in mind.
Temblor
Cover
2023
In this paper seismic events are simulated using a modified Olami–Feder–Christensen (OFC) model, within the framework of self-organized criticality.
Natural Hazards (Springer)
Researchers intend to prove the resilience of tall timber buildings when they simulate a series of large earthquakes on a 10-story mass timber building
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
As Pakistan tries to rebuild better after devastating floods, cheap, natural and easy-to-construct homes may be one answer
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