Abstract: Factors of safety for flexural members designed using the ASCE 7‐88 and American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) LRFD 1986 standards are investigated and found to represent a significant reduction in reliability ...

Abstract: Investigations of the collapse of the partially completed L'Ambiance Plaza, a 16‐story residential project under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut, revealed four major structural deficiencies that may have triggered ...

Abstract: Assurance of structural safety should always be a key project goal. However, a number of impediments have arisen that work against the uniform achievement of this objective in current American practices for building design ...

Abstract: A new design procedure is presented for prestressed concrete cylinder pipe subjected to internal pressure, external loads, and pipe and fluid weights based on certain limit‐states design criteria. The proposed design ...

Abstract: Tests conducted by the prestressed concrete pressure pipe industry in the United States during the past four decades have been gathered and analyzed. The present industry design procedures are summarized. Test results are ...