Common Types of Failures in a Steel Structure

Published on January 7, 2015 by Structural Innovations in Structural Design

Structural engineers design buildings and other structures to resist a wide variety of forces. The different types of forces include the mass of the contents of the structure including the structure itself; transient forces from the occupancy of the structure (i.e. people moving inside the structure, equipment operating inside the structure, etc…); and environmental forces […]