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Dye Penetration Testing of Structural Steel

Concrete. Strong in compression, weak in tension, right? That was one of those really early civil engineering lessons that we learned about early in our 200-level Strength of Materials course. Steel. Strong in tension, kinda […]

POST MORTEMS

You Are Never an Expert….

I recently came across a question asked by an engineer regarding the use of manufactured sand in concrete – Is it permissible to use recycled materials when producing concrete? The answer is certainly Yes, but, […]

CALCULATIONS

ADA Sidewalk Ramp Design & Construction Resources

The winter months for most construction engineers, at least in northern climates like here in Chicago, involve time in the field office crunching numbers & closing out a season’s worth of quantity entries, materials documentation […]