John R. Hillman, founder and president of HC Bridge, invented the beam in 1996 after wondering what would happen if he combined concrete and steel with a composite material. “Together ...

Hillman invented the beam design in 1996 after wondering what would happen if he combined concrete and steel with a composite material. Exposure to FRPs in graduate school at Virginia Tech and the ...

These two types of reinforcement can be combined in a composite to produce a concrete structure much lighter than traditional steel-reinforced ones. If you page through the architecture critic ...

Stretcher makes the building lighter yet dependent on columns, I- beams and light weight concrete covers. Here are the benefits of using steel composite building method: Strength and safety ...

The SpeedCore research resumed a topic of interest for Varma dating back to his doctoral degree, which was based on columns using the same steel and concrete composite system. “You could say that it ...

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete composite that is claimed to significantly reduce the cost of building nuclear ...

The Hanjiang River Super-bridge of Shiwu (Shiyan-Wuxi) North Expressway, a steel-concrete composite beam cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 370 meters, was successfully connected on its side ...