Dockside condo and townhomes, which were evacuated in February 2025, will decide if the $151M repairs are worth the price or ...

Dockside townhome owners, ordered out of their condos over 3 months ago, seek relief from a Charleston court that would allow ...

The punching shear stress on the flat slab due to poor ... use of inferior construction materials and possible foundation failure. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers and ...

Experts found the cracks in the concrete of the parking garage suggest a potential punching shear failure, which is when too much pressure causes a support column to punch through the concrete ...

Investigators suggested "punching shear failure", where concrete columns effectively broke through the slabs they supported.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Dockside Association failed to meet the deadline set by the City of Charleston, which was Mar. 7 at 5 p.m. for an engineer to provide specific reports requested by ...

But when she finally got checked out, a doctor diagnosed Ms. Ramirez with heart failure. Her condition eventually became so severe that she needed a heart transplant. Heart failure is a condition ...

NIST has yet to determine the precise spot of the initial failure. "One thing that stood out to us as structural engineers was the punching shear failures you can see all around," added Fadden.

as a concrete column would in a punching shear failure. And it was such a failure on the west edge of the pool deck where they think that the first failure occurred, pointing to two columns ...

It gave way thanks to a structural failure phenomenon known as punching shear, according to the Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, or WJE, a Chicago-based firm that authored the report. But even ...