• Structural properties of bolted joints depend on bolt and clamped-member stiffnesses. • Clamped members can be treated as a sleeve or hollow cylinder. Sound designs of bolted joints rely on a good ...

News: engineering firm Arup has produced prototype 3D-printed steel construction joints that could be used to create more efficient structures. Arup says it has produced a new design method for ...

A problem facing architects when designing complex three-dimensional structures lies in their joints, which must be strong enough to take the loads and vector forces applied by the structure, yet ...

Courtesy of IaaC (Instituto de Aquitectura Avanzada de Catalunya), Ece Tankal, Efilena Baseta, Ramin Shambayati Despite architecture's continued evolution over the course of history, our use of ...