SAN FRANCISCO — Acting Wednesday on the 95th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency called for new quake-resistant design and ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego rocked and rattled a six-story steel frame building on a giant shake table Wednesday to see how the structure would withstand ...

An untold number of welded steel moment frame buildings constructed prior to 1994 have yet to be inspected, repaired, or retrofitted in the city of Los Angeles. Michael Rosebrock / Shutterstock Daniel ...

It can be argued that light steel frame building (LSFB) is no longer an alternative building method in South Africa, as it has become the first choice of many leading contractors and developers, says ...

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On the 95 anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which levelled nearly 500 city blocks and killed 3,000 people, a U.S. agency has released a study suggesting that some modern steel-framed ...

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Hot-dip galvanised substrate is produced on continuous zinc coating lines from either cold-rolled (thickness range 0.27mm to 2. mm) or hot-rolled (thickness 2.01mm to 3.0mm) steel substrate in coil ...

Company Announcement - The response of contractors to the Light Steel Frame Building training courses presented by SASFA is testament to the growing popularity of the LSFB method in South Africa. This ...

Steel consumption by the light steel frame building (LSFB) industry has grown to 25 000 t/y, mostly in the form of high-strength galvanised steel sheets. This growth was spurred by double-digit annual ...