When developers began transforming the kitschy waterfront motels of Sunny Isles Beach into luxury high-rise condos and hotels ...

The overall learning aims of this course are (1) to understand the fundamentals of the finite element method for geotechnical analysis and (2) to be competent in the use of a finite element code as ...

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Limit analysis has emerged as a fundamental approach in geotechnical engineering, providing robust methodologies to assess the stability and ultimate load-carrying capacity of soil–structure systems.

I was born and raised in Ecuador, and since that time STEM careers started to sound interesting to me, I have always been concerned about their crucial and practical implications on society. During my ...

Seminar abstract: The Millennium Tower is a 58-story reinforced concrete building that was constructed in San Francisco, California between 2005 and 2009. The tower is founded on an embedded, ...

I was posting up with a friend back in my hometown over the holidays when the subject of his line of work came up. My compadre - whom I’ve known since we dominated the local pee-wee hoops circuit - ...