“Punching shear is a mechanism essentially where the deck would come down and the column punches through,” he said. And it was such a failure on the west edge of the pool deck where they think that ...

Structural designers say there is cause for concern but no reason to panic over research that indicates potential for premature failure of flat-plate concrete frames reinforced at slab-column ...

Concrete column specimens from Champlain Towers South are stored in a warehouse space where investigators can conduct material and structural testing. Compounding factors reduced the margins of safety ...