As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season begins, we look back at 2023 and share some tips for evaluating building safety ahead of what’s predicted to be a historically busy year.
It was a day of firsts this past week for the KC Current when the women’s soccer team took the first touch of its season at the first game held in CPKC Stadium, the first-ever in the world to be purpose-built for professional women’s sports.
The total transformation of the venue serves as a structural engineering benchmark for existing building renovations in high seismic zones and demonstrates what can be accomplished with modern design and analysis techniques.
The current paper presents the results of a ship impact study conducted using various analytical approaches available in the literature with the results obtained from detailed finite element analysis. Considering a typical container vessel impacting a rigid wall with an initial speed of 10 knots, the study investigates the forces imparted on the struck obstacle, the energy dissipated through inelastic deformation, penetration, local deformation patterns, and local failure of the ship elements.
Understanding the requirements of davit arms and suspension maintenance platforms is paramount to designing functional façade access equipment programs.