structural-engineering

Research on Steel Beam Performance May Lead to Safer, More Reliable Structures For Lilli Webb, engineering is about getting the details right, especially the ones others might overlook. The Lawrence Technological University architectural engineering graduate student has been named the 2026 recipient of the Structural Engineers Foundation Research Grant, a competitive national award that supports …

Learn how Siemens Simcenter’s AI-powered simulation tools achieved 15% mass reduction and 166x faster crash predictions—demonstrated through a Star Wars AT-ST walker optimization case study.

Time-dependent reliability assessment of structural systems is challenging when degradation and multiple interacting failure modes govern failure. Under these conditions, the system limit state function (LSF) may be highly nonlinear, non-smooth, and available only implicitly through high-fidelity analysis. This paper proposes a system decomposition and hierarchical learning (DHL) framework to con…

Have you ever wondered why some things bend under pressure while others break? How do some buildings remain standing for centuries? In Structures, scientist and engineer James Edward Gordon reveals why some materials and structures can withstand forces like gravity and wind while maintaining their form and stability, while others collapse under pressure. Read more in our Structures book overview.…

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