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Water Research Foundation, Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe Condition Assessment

United States

Project Contacts: Rasko Ojdrovic

Prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) have been used for water transmission systems for more than sixty-five years. Therefore, utilities need effective means to identify distressed or deteriorated pipe, estimate levels of distress, analyze...

Services:Structural Investigation

Markets:Water/Wastewater

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Condition Assessment, Deterioration, PCCP, Pipe, Pipeline, Research/Development

Water Research Foundation, CFRP Renewal of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe, Project 4352

United States

Project Contacts: Murat Engindeniz, Mehdi Zarghamee

Prestressed-concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) makes up a significant portion of pipelines for the world's water, wastewater, and cooling water systems. Distress to PCCP can include broken wires, cracked core, or corroded steel cylinder. Renewal of...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation

Markets:Water/Wastewater

Keywords:Analytical Studies, Codes & Standards, Composites-FRP / CFRP / GFRP, Field Testing, Laboratory Testing and Analysis, PCCP, Pipeline, Plastic/Composite

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November 26, 2018

Functional Recovery and Seismic Vulnerability

By: Taryn Williams

Resilience has become a common term among engineers, policymakers, and the national community of construction industry professionals. NCSEA recently formed a Resilience subcommittee to develop positions and recommendations on issues concerning...

Services:Structural Design

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Resiliency, Seismic Engineering and Retrofit

October 30, 2017

Considerations for the 9th Edition Massachusetts State Building Code

By: David Bliss, Erik Farrington, Andrew Jeffrey, Brian Kuhn, Philip Moser

On 20 October 2017, the ninth edition of the Massachusetts State Building Code (MSBC, 780 CMR) went into...

Keywords:Code Compliance, Codes & Standards

October 23, 2017

Infrared Technology Application in Building Envelopes in the United States: Applications, ASTM Standards, and Limitations

By: Christopher Grey, Emily Wartman

This presentation and associated paper describe the three most popular referenced ASTM standard tests, the purpose of the tests, common challenges of building-envelope-related infrared work, and methods that can provide additional accuracy...

Services:Building Enclosure Investigation

Keywords:Building Science, Codes & Standards, Thermal

October 4, 2017

Assuring Quality Adhesive Anchor Installations in the Americas

By: Neal Anderson, Michael Morrison, Donald F. Meinheit

Anchorage to concrete design provisions were first incorporated into the ACI 318 Code in 20021 as Appendix D. In 2011, the design provisions for adhesively bonded anchors were added to the ACI 318-11 Building Code Requirements for Structural...

Services:Structural Design

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Concrete

July 17, 2017

ACI 562-16: The ACI Concrete Repair Code

By: Kevin Conroy, Keith Kesner

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) Senior Project Manager Kevin Conroy coauthored an article describing the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) updated building repair code for existing concrete structures. The...

Services:Structural Rehabilitation

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation

April 7, 2017

ASCE/SEI Guideline: Structural Fire Engineering

By: Kevin LaMalva

In the U.S., the vast majority of structures are designed to resist fire exposure according to prescriptive methods in the building codes. Accordingly, the designer selects qualified assemblies from available listings that describe the process or...

Services:Structural Design

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Fire Engineering

April 7, 2017

Overview of Alternative Load Path Analysis

By: Michael Mudlock

Designing a structure to reduce the likelihood of disproportionate collapse requires an understanding of structural and material behavior and the expected response of that particular structure to the loss of a selected portion of the vertical...

Services:Structural Design

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Failure Risk Assessment

January 18, 2017

Mooring Line Systems for Tanker Vessels – Current Standards in Analysis and Design Compared to Real Life Data

By: Rune Iversen, William Bruin

Design and analysis of moorings of tanker vessels have traditionally been approached from two sides: from the vessel side, regulated by classification societies and with proposed guidelines from OCIMF, and from the land side, regulated by local codes and standards.

Services:Structural Design

Markets:Ports & Terminals

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Marine Engineering, Mooring and Berthing

September 20, 2016

Decoding the Code: 2016 New York City Energy Conservation Code

By: Sean OBrien, Cheryl Saldanha

On 3 October 2016, the updated New York City Energy Conservation Code (NYCECC) will go into effect....

Services:Building Enclosure Design

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Energy (Energy Modeling, Energy Audits, Energy Commissioning)

September 9, 2016

Evolution of ACI 562 Code – Part 7

By: Jared Brewe, Gustavo Tumialan, Paul Kelley

The September 2016 issue of Concrete International Magazine includes an article by Jared Brewe (Senior Staff I, CHI SE), Gustavo Tumialan (Senior Project Manager, BOS SE), and Paul Kelley (Senior Principal, BOS SE). The article, “Evolution...

Services:Structural Investigation, Structural Rehabilitation

Keywords:Codes & Standards, Concrete, Concrete Rehabilitation