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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deflection and the control of the effects of the complex urban seismic wavefield on the built environment is a major challenge in earthquake engineering. The interactions between the soil and the ...