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How a Team of Innovators Protected Toronto’s Busiest Rail Corridor In this story, you’ll discover: The hidden risks beneath Toronto’s Distillery District How a high-rise project put Canada’s busiest rail corridor at risk The boutique firm that kept 300,000 commuters...

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While most structural analysis software can evaluate everyday stresses, they often fail to prepare buildings for extreme events. As environmental disasters and severe weather become more frequent, clients demand greater confidence in building safety. Engineers need better tools to ensure...

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Hydroelectric power plants are used for economic and environmentally friendly electric power generation all around the world. One of the technical challenges in the design of such structures is to consider the fluid-structure interaction effects. For example, when the water...

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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) initiated the California Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program to determine the vulnerability of California’s major toll bridges to damage associated with strong earthquakes and to design retrofits to improve seismic safety. ADINA was selected...

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An earthquake can cause a dam to crack or dislocate, or even cause its component blocks to detach. The damage can result in uncontrolled water release or a catastrophic flood. Numerical methods such as finite element analysis play an important...
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CNI Ingenieros Consultores SAS Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia Building Heavy Materials in a Busy Pedestrian-trafficked Area Pontifical Xavierian University’s master development plan includes a new, 14,089-square-meter, 15-story engineering laboratory and research building with three basement levels. CNI Ingenieros Consultores was tasked...

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