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Buckling length – failed so many times! In our practice, we quite often check existing buildings. This is to establish whether new loads can be added or whether, for example, a photovoltaic installation can be mounted....

Structural Strengthening Under Full Load Corrosion in chemical plants doesn’t wait for a convenient shutdown. We recently tackled a severely degraded steel column on a pipe rack, where aggressive environmental...

ISO/AWS – the same weld, but different weld symbols The European ISO 2553 and the American AWS/ANSI A2.4 are similar, yet not identical. When preparing fabrication drawings, it is important to distinguish between...

Weld symbols – that’s the easy one, isn’t it? You just put an arrow and define the symbol. You draw the symbol, print it as a PDF and send it to the workshop. Yet after a while, you realise on the building site that...