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unusual facts about Structural design



Properties of concrete

Structural design, concrete material design and properties are often specified in accordance with national/regional design codes such as American Concrete Institute.


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Charles Alton Ellis

Charles Alton Ellis (1876–1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Crack arrestor

Crack arrestors were used to reinforce the airplane hull of the De Havilland Comet following a series of catastrophic accidents related to structural design problems that were previously unknown.

David J. Farrar

It being the eve of World War II, he expected to go into the Royal Air Force, having been an active member of the University Air Squadron, but was assigned to the aircraft industry in the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he specialised initially in structural design.

Eastern Suburbs railway line

In 1967 the New South Wales Government awarded the contract for the civil and structural design of the entire line to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority (SMA), the Commonwealth Government agency responsible for the design and construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in south-eastern Australia.

Edmund Happold

In 1959 Happold moved to work with Fred Severud (a civil engineer whose work included the structural design of Madison Square Garden and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and engineer for Eero Saarinen who died June 1990 in Miami Florida) in New York, before returning to London to work with Ove Arup and Partners in 1961.

Five foot way

This feature can be found in many shophouses (and buildings of similar structural design) all over the world, and also in some office buildings (e.g. those along Shenton Way in Singapore).

Frank Baron

Baron was perhaps best known in the Northern California Bay Area for his structural design work on the Dumbarton, Golden Gate, and Bay Bridges, as well as for his role in designing the roof structure of the St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

L'Oceanogràfic

The architecture of the complex is a work of the architect Félix Candela and the engineers Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro, who made the structural design of the concrete coverings of the buildings.

Michel Bakhoum

He contributed to the design of several churches and the structural design for St. Mark Cathedral in Abassia, Cairo, Egypt.

New Law Tenement

New Law tenements are distinct from "Old Law" and "pre-law" tenements both in structural design and exterior ornament.

Process duct work

Rectangular ductwork is covered be the ASCE "The Structural Design of Air & Gas Ducts for Process Power Stations and Industrial Applications".

Self-framing metal buildings

Engineered structural design must comply with the applicable sections of the latest edition of the "Specification for Structural Steel Buildings" of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the "Specification for the Design of Cold Formed Steel Structural Members" of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).

Seventh Avenue Bridge

Western Australian transport minister Troy Buswell did not believe community involvement was needed in the structural design of the bridge, which had been undertaken by qualified engineers to ensure the new structure would be built on the same footprint, while taking into consideration modern safety and operational standards.