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ASI will be attending the 2019 Structure Congress in Orlando, FL from April 24-27, 2019. ASI sessions this year focus on the Protective Design for Structures and industrial facilities. Below are the Sessions that ASI is participating in. ASI Engineers will also be...
ASCE Structures Congress 2019
ASI will be attending the 2019 Structure Congress in Orlando, FL from April 24-27, 2019. ASI sessions this year focus on the Protective Design for Structures and industrial facilities. Below are the Sessions that ASI is participating in. ASI Engineers will also be...
Nonlinear Dynamic Alternative Load Path Analysis of 10-story Concrete Shear Wall Flat Plate Building
Ahmed Khalil, Ph.D., P.E. will be presenting a paper entitled, ” Nonlinear Dynamic Alternative Load Path Analysis of 10-story Concrete Shear Wall Flat Plate Building”, at Structures Congress 2019, Saturday, April 27th from 8:00 – 9:30 AM in the...
Different Methods of Underpinning the Foundation
Underpinning is a process of strengthening the foundation of a building or a structure. The entire process provides a permanent structure or a temporary support to an already held foundation. It can be done by various ways such as: Improving the foundation system In...
Three Reasons to Hire a Structural Engineer for your Home
House structural engineers work in tandem with homeowners, contractors, and architects to insure the safety and integrity of a structure by consulting on design and build projects and renovations to ensure they are built to code and safe to inhabit. A structural...
Advantages of Timber Trusses
A timber truss roof is traditionally of triangular shape with straight beams of timber connected from end to end in order to distribute the weight of the roof away from the exterior walls. The job of the truss is to form the structure for the roof. A roof is one of...
Opening Plenary Speaker at the Forensic Engineering 8th Congress
Dr. Ahmed Amir Khalil, PhD, PE, Structural Consultant at Applied Science International, LLC (ASI) will be delivering the Opening Plenary Speech at the Forensic Engineering 8th Congress in Austin, Texas from 8:30AM-10:00AM on Friday November 30th, 2018. His...
Advantages of Concrete Retaining Walls
A retaining wall is generally created around a residential plot to confine the area. However, the main purpose of building such a wall is to level the ground and maintain the natural slope of that place. This is done to make the ground apt for gardening or...
Forensic Engineering 8th Congress
Forging Forensic Frontiers Interact with other professionals tasked with determining the root causes and consequences of design errors and construction defects. Stay abreast of the latest evaluation techniques and investigative methods while earning continuing...
SteelSmart Framer – Build 116 Released!
Applied Science International, LLC (ASI) & The Steel Network, Inc. (TSN) are excited to announce the release of Build 116 for our new SteelSmart® Framer BIM software for Light Steel Framing. SteelSmart Framer makes it possible to quickly...
Why Engineering Consultants are in Huge Demand
Any construction project requires high-quality supervision and team effort to get success. A good team for any project consists of specialized members from different areas. A Construction project requires expertise, deep industry knowledge and requisite technical...
Exploring Stone Staircases
Stone staircases are most likely the oldest form of the staircase. Just about every ancient site ever uncovered features a stone staircase. The design is often simple yet the aesthetic is always impressive, especially when the staircase features large blocks of...
Progressive Collapse Analysis Performed with Extreme Loading® for Structures
For a limited time only, several Progressive Collapse papers published in Engineering Structures Journal, which discuss the use of Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) nonlinear dynamic structural analysis software to analyze structures and design to prevent...
Reliability of collapse simulation – Comparing finite and applied element method at different levels
Numerical prediction of progressive collapse of buildings due to extreme loading is still a challenging task. However, increased computational power makes it nowadays possible to analyze not only small-scale connections and mid-size building elements, but also full...
4 Ways to Save Time and Money Using BIM with Light Steel Framing
Building Information Modeling (BIM), rapidly revolutionizing the construction industry. Overall, engineering and design technology has advanced considerably in the last 30 years within the construction industry. Part of that advancement has...
Research and Practice on Progressive Collapse and Robustness of Building Structures in the 21st Century
Extreme events (i.e. terrorist attacks, vehicle impacts, explosions, etc.) often cause local damage to building structures and pose a serious threat when one or more vertical load-bearing components fail, leading to the progressive collapse of the entire structure or...
Specifying Safe Demolition
Every day, old structures are demolished to make room for new and improved buildings, bridges, and other structures. More often than we would like, during the course of these demolitions, things do not go as planned and loss or...
Using the Applied Element Method to simulate the dynamic response of full-scale URM houses tested to collapse or near-collapse conditions
In this work, the Applied Element Method (AEM) is employed to reproduce the dynamic response of three full-scale unreinforced masonry (URM) house specimens tested on a shake-table. Two of the test specimens correspond to a calcium-silicate terraced house typology...