Every day, old structures are demolished to make room for new and improved buildings, bridges, and other structures. More often than we would like, during the course of these demolitions, things do not go as planned and loss or damage to property can occur. The...
We’re happy to announce the release of our Advanced Structural Analysis Software, Extreme Loading for Structures (ELS) Version 6.0! ELS is used by structural engineers and researchers around the world to study the effects of blast, progressive collapse, wind,...
Progressive collapse is a catastrophic partial or total failure that mostly occurs when a structure lose a primary structural component or more like a column or any vertical load-resisting component. This loss could be as a result of a car accident, explosion of a...
Protect Against Structural Failure Efficient – Nonlinear Dynamic – Performance Based Design Extreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) offers a new advanced level of nonlinear dynamic structural analysis, that allows users efficiently to study structural failure...
Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2014 World Demolition Awards. The annual summit and awards event is held annually in Amsterdam and gathers the worlds leading demolition experts to discuss their latest accomplishments, safety, and new technology....
Practical Engineering Tools – Performance Based Results For Structural Engineers, it truly is What’s on the Inside that Counts! Ensuring that the internal components of the structure is sufficient meet requirements for building code, occupancy, risk,...
The 2013 Explosive Demolition Award was collected by Fabio Bruno Pinto and was presented by Dan Costello. Fabio gained the Award for safely performing the risky implosion of three reinforced concrete buildings with 7, 6, and 5 floors in the city of Niterói in Brazil....
Progressive collapse indicates the partial or total collapse of structures caused by the local damage of structural members arising from an abnormal load. To induce ideal collapse behavior, the progressive collapse is applied to most explosive demolition design for...
Congratulations to Fábio Pinto Bruno and his team at Fábio Bruno Construções, who has just taken home the Explosive Demolition Award from the 2011 World Demolition Summit held in Amsterdam this past weekend. The Explosive Demolition Award is one of twelve...
This paper regarding the use of Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) to study progressive collapse was recently published in the proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering held this summer in London, UK. The authors study the effects of infill walls in...
