Negar Elhami Khorasani received the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) young professional scholarship by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) earlier this year, and is one of four ...

The International Code Council has approved—as expected—the updated structural building-design standard, written by the American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute, for ...

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

The research team, led by Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering assistant professor, Negar Elhami-Khorasani and assistant professor Thomas Gernay from Johns Hopkins University ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Earthquakes and explosions grab the headlines when structures are toppled, but often the Achilles’ heel of engineering is fire. Fire is the follow-up act in disasters, the coup ...

In a world aiming toward sustainability and risk mitigation, the traditional prescriptive method to structural fire safety is becoming less and less viable. Fortunately, new industry resources can ...

Fire safety engineering is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to understanding, preventing and mitigating risks posed by fire within the built environment. It integrates the science of combustion, ...

March 29, 2021 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has launched free NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting online training for firefighters to learn safer and more effective ways ...

FWH Fire Wall Hanger Attaches Floor Framing to 2-hour Fire Rated Wall Assemblies in Wood-Frame Construction. FWH Allows Framers to Install the Hangers Before the Drywall is Attached. CHESTERFIELD, Mo.

Structural engineering — a specialty within the field of civil engineering — focuses on the framework of structures, and on designing those structures to withstand the stresses and pressures of their ...

Through an NSF grant, SLU in partnership with Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, has created learning modules for experiential learning in structural engineering. There are twelve modules broken ...

Significant attention and research has been given to the protective gear that a firefighter wears. Gear needs to provide a level of protection against the overall thermal environment and products of ...