Many transmission structures are tested to failure at full-scale, leading to an improved understanding of capacity compared to most structures. Typically when extreme wind events occur, the maximum ...

Civil-structural engineers like to do things by the book. They admittedly tend to be techno geeks who prefer to have automobile owner’s manuals on hand, whether or not they service their own vehicles.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has decided that emergency changes to wind-load provisions in ASCE's 2010 building design standard are not needed. ASCE recently reviewed the provisions, ...