The shopping mall at 4104 Harlem Avenue was constructed in the mid-1950s. The owner wanted to reinvent the Harlem Irving Plaza by subdividing the former Carson Pirie Scott department store into multiple tenant spaces and adding elevators and...
This seventeen-story structure is one of several architecturally significant, mid-century modernist concrete buildings designed by Josep Lluís Sert for Boston University’s campus. The tower's concrete facade deteriorated over time,...
The helipad at UMass Memorial Medical Center’s University Campus is an essential part of the hospital’s patient transport operations. Its cast-in-place concrete slab exhibited joint deterioration exacerbated by plowing and deicing...
Constructed around 1962, Harvard Towers includes a two-level, below-grade parking garage below the ground-level plaza. The intermediate elevated deck in the cast-in-place concrete parking structure suffered from widespread deterioration in the...
With its compact size and industrial aesthetics, 900 West blends with its West Loop neighborhood. The building includes twenty-two luxury condominiums, two penthouse units with city views, large private balconies, and enclosed parking at grade....
Three parking structures serve 3 Allied Drive: a two-level, steel-framed garage with hollow core planks below the five-story building; a precast double-tee garage to the east; and a two-level, cast-in-place concrete connector between the building...
Louisiana State University’s (LSU’s) Tiger Stadium was built in 1924 and was expanded in many stages. The north end zone structure was built in 1936 with integral student dormitories. As part of an ongoing improvement plan, LSU wanted...
The new three-story Museum of Science is a living laboratory that invites visitors to learn about science and technology with an emphasis on South Florida’s culture and ecosystem. The 250,000 sq ft building features a Gulf Stream Tank...
Simmons Hall is a key component in MIT’s campus initiative to develop buildings that serve as centers for student life and encourage more students to live on campus. The residence hall houses 350 students and includes amenities to...
Environment Hall serves as the new home of Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and houses academic offices, teaching spaces, laboratories, and an eighty-seat lecture hall. Designed to meet LEED Platinum standards, the...
Abstract: Formal concrete anchorage design provisions first appeared in ACI 318-02 as Appendix D, with applications limited to cast-in-place anchors and post-installed mechanical expansion anchors. The codified design provisions represented a...
Abstract: The Hynes Convention Center is located in the heart of Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood. Portions of the Hynes are located directly over I-90, the Massachusetts Turnpike. A 50-year-old cast-in-place concrete slab, suspended...
Abstract: This paper describes an evaluation of the lateral load-resisting system of an existing monolithic, cast-in-place, reinforced concrete (RC) stadium structure completed in the early 1930s. A major renovation/expansion of the stadium...
Also published as: NEHRP Seismic Design Technical Brief No. 3
NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program)|Technical Briefs are published by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as aids to the...
This paper introduces a constitutive material model of reinforcing steel bars in reinforced concrete (RC) columns. The model accounts for the restraining effect of transverse reinforcement on the bar buckling length and the stress at the onset of...