STRUCTURE Articles

The Seattle Aquarium’s new Ocean Pavilion proves that virtually any concrete shape can be built when digital tools blend with outside-the-box engineering.

The Norton Rose Fulbright Tower’s offset core, rotated bays, and forked cantilevered facade were possible through creative structural design solutions.

Five viaducts along the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep Highway in southern Turkey were damaged by the 2023 Mw 7.8 earthquake. Damage assessment and the seismic retrofit design for two of those viaducts are shared here in Part 1. The remaining three will be covered in Part 2 in the October issue.

When applicable, finite difference methods are highly efficient and readily programmable, and they can be easily deployed in the field.

AI tools, such as those that analyze complex documents or use visual data to assess infrastructure, are being developed to make engineering tasks more efficient and reliable.

Accounting for steel’s reserve strength enables optimized building designs.

A focus on adaptive reuse transforms a decommissioned monorail structure into the longest elevated pedestrian loop in the world, the Treetop Trail at the Minnesota Zoo.

The hospital project integrated a street-level loading dock within the building's footprint and implemented a cantilever over the courtyard.

An exploration of the structural systems of the new Las Vegas icon.

The construction team for a college located near the San Andreas fault faced many column shoring challenges while implementing a complicated seismic retrofit.

Three years ago, the ACEC Arizona board sat around a table grappling with a challenge that resonates across the country: too few students entering engineering programs, and too many graduates arriving in the workforce without the skills they need to succeed.

Though targets for structural reliability have not yet been rigorously explored, reliability can be qualitatively examined in terms of four categories: safety, authority, ownership, and engineering.