Initially, side plate construction was introduced to greatly improve the quality of the beam-to-column connection. Further improvements included the provision of side plate technology using full ...

A fabricator that needs to weld thick plate in as few passes as possible often will turn to submerged arc welding (SAW), a legacy process that has dominated heavy fabrication for decades. Variations ...

Adaptive laser beam shaping with a deformable mirror enables efficient energy and material usage in laser welding and ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Reduced beam sections (RBS). Infill panels. Seismic performance. Intermediate beams. Ground motion. Buckling. Cyclic tests ...