R APID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A semi truck carrying a very long concrete beam shut down traffic in a Rapid City intersection Tuesday when the beam broke in half. The truck was turning left onto ...

A construction worker was killed and another was hospitalized Saturday night during Interstate 4 construction in downtown Orlando involving a massive concrete beam. Construction along the 21-mile o… ...

The shoe attached to the front of the steel beam vibrates at just ½ to ¾ of an inch in amplitude, so only the concrete is broken. A Caterpillar C15 diesel engine drives Sauer pumps through a Rexroth ...

Timber frame and post and beam construction are both beautiful methods of constructing a house. Most people don't know the difference between the two types. Included here is a short comparison of ...

Concrete is then poured into those forms and allowed to harden, resulting in a series of flat slabs. Metal beams and a steel cable are subsequently attached to those slabs, linking them all together.

Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...

In determining the strength of reinforced-concrete beams, the authors have wisely, ... Principles of Reinforced Concrete Construction. By F. E. Turneaure E. R. Maurer. Pp. x + 429.

Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is rapidly emerging as a premier material for precast concrete construction. First introduced as “reactive powder concrete” in the early 1990s, this ...