Abstract Ghana 39;s building regulations mdash; most recently codified in GS 1207:2018 mdash; were calibrated against a set of environmental assumptions that coastal urbanization and climate change ...

DNV has updated its seismic guidance for onshore and offshore wind plants, promoting safer designs in earthquake-prone ...

A bolted connection rarely gets the attention a beam or slab gets. On the drawing, it looks simple. In the bill of materials, it’s one line. That mismatch is why several of the most famous structural ...

Nowadays, structural “limit state” design is made using characteristic or nominal values of actions, partial safety factors and load combination factors. The actual loading that a structure will be ...

Scia has released Scia Engineer 2026, a major update to its multi-material structural analysis and design software. Headline enhancements include better tools for designing structures subject to ...

Punching is a possible failure mode for slender footings and it may lead a structure to ruin through progressive collapse. Although footing present different geometric characteristics, their punching ...

Our academic and research staff are undertaking experimental, analytical and theoretical research on wind energy infrastructure and technology. An up close view of a wind turbine Our research ranges ...

Foundations and retaining walls are designed to Eurocode 7 using partial safety factors. The aim of designs to Eurocode 7 is to ensure that the occurrence of an ultimate or a serviceability limit ...