Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Garance Burke, The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Nearly two-thirds of the buildings that collapsed in Mexico City’s monstrous earthquake last month were ...
A corrosion-free composite rebar-reinforced floor slab, based on a lab-tested glass fiber-reinforced polymer rebar-specific punching shear equation, which performs like a steel-reinforced slab at a ...
In apartments with flat slab structures where the private sector conducted the projects (ordering and construction), no poor construction such as omission of shear reinforcement was found. The ...