Recurrent building collapses are often linked to the use of poor-quality materials and improper construction practices. This ...

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 ...

Any more load could cause the building's columns to burst through the slab. Engineers call this "punching shear failure," which caused the Florida collapse, according to WJE, the same firm now ...

The letter followed a report in which an engineer from Wiss, Janney and Elstner, a national construction engineering firm, told the Dockside board that "punching shear failure can occur with ...

"I think you're OK with punching." Crockett spoke about resistance to the Trump administration in the interview with Lone Star Politics. "The reality is we're dealing with an administration that ...

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 ...

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 before ...