China: Bridge collapse due to heavy rainfall
On Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at approximately 7:40 AM local time, the Grand Bridge collapsed following a landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Sandu County, Rongjiang area, Guizhou Province, southwest...
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Bentley's Bentley Webinar: Boost Efficiency and Compliance of Structural Steel Design for Substations and Transmission Structures with STAAD begins at 15 Jul 2025
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Canada: A new supertall tower reaches its final height
A new milestone has been reached in Canada’s skyline. After years of delays and setbacks, the 85-storey tower at One Bloor West has topped out at 309 meters, officially becoming the tallest building...
New Jersey: Structural failure led to building collapse
On Wednesday, June 25, a building collapsed at approximately 1:30 PM local time at the Seabrook Brothers & Sons facility, located at 85 Finley Road in Upper Deerfield Township, Cumberland County,...
Bridge collapse in India results in 2 fatalities, at least 32 injured
On Sunday, June 15, at approximately 3:30 p.m. IST, a steel bridge collapsed over the Indrayani River at Kundamala near Talegaon in Pune district, Maharashtra, India. The incident resulted in 2 fatal...
Shinnston, West Virginia, USA: Abandoned multi-story building collapsed
On Sunday, June 22, at approximately 10:07 a.m. Eastern Time, a multi-story building partially collapsed on Hood Avenue in Shinnston, located in Harrison County, West Virginia, USA. According to Came...
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Drilled Shafts Project on Gilbert Road Bridge
In response to significant flooding events and working under an accelerated construction schedule in record-high temperatures, Keller constructs some of the largest drilled shafts in Arizona. Diverte...
ADINA 2025 New Release!
Bentley Systems announced a new major release of ADINA. For a complete list of changes see ADINA 2025 Release Notes. Bentley Structural WorkSuite users may now run ADINA. The ADINA SWS mode include...
ADINA 2025 for Structural WorkSuite
The Structural WorkSuite provides access to the RAM and STAAD structural analysis products and now also includes ADINA. To read more about Structural WorkSuite, or to purchase a license, visit the St...
New Release - STAAD.Pro 2024 - 2
As part of our commitment to you to deliver new builds more frequently, this version which adds great new functionality to improve efficiency for engineers around the world and has resolved numerous...
Keller employees receive ADSC President’s Award
Project Executive John Grillo started at Keller (then Hayward Baker) in 2011 as a project manager in New York and has over 20 years of experience as a geotechnical engineer and specialty contractor....
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Researchers develop new ultra-resistant and self-repairing concrete materials
New ultra-resistant and self-repairing concrete materials have been designed by a team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Politecnico di Milano. In cracking situations, the ne...
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As power demand increases and infrastructure ages, the need to maintain, expand, and fortify substation structures and the broader electrical power grid has never been more critical. This webinar wil...
Bentley Webinar: Solving the Unique Design Challenges of Power Grid Foundations with STAAD Foundation Advanced 2025
Substation and transmission foundations face unique demands—heavy electrical equipment, complex loading conditions, and stringent code requirements. In this webinar, you'll learn how the 2025 release...
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An innovative low damage seismic solution for unreinforced clay brick infill walls Pounding effects during an earthquake, with and without consideration of soil-structure interaction A reconnaissance report on two Iran, Makran Earthquakes Seismic retrofitting solution of an adobe masonry wall Cyclic testing and comparison of locally CFRP confined HSS braces and buckling-restrained braces A multimode pushover procedure for asymmetric buildings under bidirectional ground motion Mechanical properties of brick masonry with different types of bonds Framework for developing fragility relations of high-rise RC wall buildings based on verified modelling approach Relative safety margins of code-conforming vertically irregular high-rise buildings Performance based evaluation and design of reinforced concrete frames with strong masonry infill
Education
Example: longitudinal reinforcement for shear and torsion according to EC2
Given: For the rectangular section of Figure 1 calculate the longitudinal reinforcement for shear and torsion. The section considered has depth 1500mm, width 1000mm, d = 1450mm. The vertical membe...
Calculation of the second moments of area
The problem: Determine the second moments of area, Ixx and Iyy, for the sections indicated in Figures 2a to 2e. Tip: It is given that the total height and the area of the 457 x 152 x 52 UB...
Calculation of the cross-sectional area and the position of centroid
The problem: Determine the cross-sectional area and the position of the centroid for the sections shown in Figures 1a to 1e. Please consider that the origin of the coordinate system is located...
Overhanging beam: shear force and bending moment calculation
Calculate the shear force and bending moment values due to the imposed loading on the overhanging beam of Figure 1. Figure 1: The overhanging beam considered. The free-body-diagram is shown in F...
Time History Analysis: process and advantages
In the field of structural engineering and design, the examination of dynamic loads is significant and cannot be underestimated. Time history analysis stands out as a crucial approach to studying...
Bending stress in a beam element
Given: A simply supported beam of length L=5m is given in Figure 1a. The beam is subjected to uniform distributed load equal to 3.2kN/m. If the beam has a rectangular cross-section, as shown in...
Method of sections
Please determine the forces in the members BC, GC and GF of the pin-jointed plane truss shown in Figure 1 using the method of sections. Given: Figure 1: The pin-jointed plane truss considered. So...
Books
Structural Engineering Solved Problems
Structural Engineering Solved Problems contains 100 practice problems representing a broad range of topics on the Structural Engineering (SE) and Civil PE exams. Each problem provides an opportunity t...
Structural Depth Reference Manual for the Civil PE Exam, Fourth Edition
The Structural Depth Reference Manual prepares you for the structural depth section of the Civil PE exam. It provides a concise, yet comprehensive review of the structural depth section exam topics an...
Structural Depth Practice Exams for the Civil PE Exam
Structural Depth Practice Exams contains two 40-problem, multiple-choice exams consistent with the NCEES Civil PE structural depth exam's format and specifications. Like the actual exam, the problems...