If passed, the screenings would impact owners of two types of buildings in San Francisco, which could need retrofit upgrades to become earthquake safe.

For years, San Francisco has been compiling a preliminary list of nearly 4,000 concrete buildings at risk of collapsing in a ...

Analysis of a high-rise building with double-layer isolation demonstrates superior seismic response, minimizing risks of structural failure during earthquakes.

Abuja, a City under Threat Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, is a hotspot for the theft of manhole covers, leaving ...

Discover how thixotropic behavior in metals supports precision shaping, improved flow control, and sustainable manufacturing—key for 3D printing, injection molding, and aerospace.

It's extra large and it was a reinforced concrete pipe, which we don’t have very much of ... They range in age and are made up of different materials—predominantly cast iron, ductile iron and PVC. But ...

It lies inside the concrete itself — in the steel bars ... manufacturers also showed inconsistencies in strength and poor ductility — the ability to bend without breaking.

Electrosteel Castings is a pioneer in the manufacturing of ductile iron (DI) pipes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the water infrastructure business. With a production capacity of 700,000 ...

Residential and commercial buildings in Penang can withstand tremors measuring up to 4.0 on the Richter scale, according to the Penang Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (Rehda).