In my last blog post, I talked about ongoing research to make steel even stronger. In this country, we are lucky that building standards have required structural engineering plans that involve steel and that those standards are enforced. During our short history as a nation, we have learned many lessons from natural disasters and other [...]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
How Studying Fire and Cigarettes Is Making Steel Stronger »
Who says you can’t make steel even better? I posted an article on Facebook a while back about civil engineering students and professors at Purdue University researching how to make steel structures stronger. And as the 10 year anniversary of the terrible events of 9/11 approached and passed, I found myself intrigued by the research [...]
