Q. I'm getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I've been told that a wood beam will work, but I've always seen steel I-beams in other houses. Is it ...

The idea of strengthening a steel beam with carbon fiber is not new. Approaches have ranged from coating corroded steel i-beams with carbon fiber and epoxy to a patent by Boeing where carbon fiber ...

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