A hollow core slab, also known as a voided slab, hollow core plank or simply a concrete plank is a precast slab of prestressed concrete typically used in the ...

Solid Slabs are fully customizable concrete slabs of varying width, length and thickness. Solid Slabs can be designed and produced with mild reinforcing or by ...

The span of a beam is dependent on a few variables: The grade and species of lumber, size of lumber and the load it carries. Fewer posts on upper-level decks ...

It may become necessary to determine the section modulus of the precast prestressed section for a composite slab of given depth and either case, formulae ...

The ultimate bearing capacity of a pile is the maximum load which it can carry without failure or excessive settlement of the ground. The bearing capacity of ...

A pile cap (Figure 1) is a stocky reinforced structure which spreads and distributes the load from acolumn or bridge pier downwards into supporting piles. ...

An end plate connection, as shown in Fig. 1, consists solely of a vertical plate shop-welded to the end of the web transverse to the axis of the beam with ...

Moment connections are designed to transfer bending moments, shear forces and sometimes normal forces. The design strength and stiffness of a moment ...

Shear is the term assigned to forces that act perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of structural elements. ... Concrete beams are expected to crack in ...

In terms of design, the term 'section' typically refers to a view of a structure as though it has been sliced in half or cut along another imaginary plane, ...