By making the switch from steel to concrete, it's thought that the upper limit of turbine column height could be raised from 80 m (262 ft) to over 100 m (328 ft). SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

Q. The outside of the Lally columns in my under-the-house garage have rusted out at the bottom. The inside concrete looks OK, but is the outside steel layer important? GUEST, in Hotton’s chat ...

Video released by investigators shows densely packed steel reinforcement in various sections of the building, along with extensive corrosion where one column met the building's foundation.

Even worse, the steel bars embedded in concrete as reinforcement can corrode over time. Very tiny cracks can be quite harmful because they provide an easy route in for liquids and gasses – and ...

Keywords: Blast, seismic, testing, composite columns, multi-hazard, retrofit, design, jacketed columns, concrete-filled steel tubes. Abstract: This report presents the results of an analytical and ...

The Orange is all in regarding big-time college sports' arms race with the building of its newest complex -- all 87,000 square feet of it -- that is scheduled to open on Dec. 1.

The accident in Surfside, Fla., killed 98 people two years ago. Now a federal team says the condo's concrete columns and pool deck were constructed improperly and didn't meet building codes.

Bob Laga, the MTA’s vice president of infrastructure, said water constantly leaks into the train shed, which corrodes its steel support columns. “Rust on the steel beam is like cancer,” Laga ...

Making the Concrete and Steel We Need Doesn’t Have to Bake the Planet. There are cleaner ways to produce the building blocks of the nation. March 4, 2021.