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 Building to the Sky and the Height Paradox by Ali MM in  Crimson publishers :  Open Journal of Civil Engineering In the wake of the catastrophic event of September 11, 2001 that brought down the World Trade Center buildings in New York, naysayers hastily predicted that it marked the end of future skyscraper construction. Engineers and architects who knew the history of tall buildings in cities, however, knew that these urban edifices did not surface fortuitously, but rather were essential to address the problems of increased human habitation as the world population continued to grow and people were moving from rural areas to cities. During the presentations of papers on tall buildings in different settings, I faced critics of tall buildings and tried to get across to them the logic behind the unrelenting development of tall buildings in the absence of alternate viable solutions to the problem of increasing high density in cities. Admittedly, tall buildings have a few sho...

 Recent Achievements and Challenge of Long Span Bridges in China by Hongmei Tan in  Crimson publishers :  Open Journal of Civil Engineering Recently, bridges are becoming longer, wider and more sophisticated in China and over the world, in particular, with longer span length or so-called long span bridges. Nevertheless, achievements and challenge are coexisting in girder, arch, cable-stayed and suspension types. Long span girder bridges| Girder bridges are most widely used bridge type with three sub-categories, simply supported system, continuous system and continuous rigid frame system. The current longest span of simply supported beam bridge is only 76m while continuous beam bridge has the longest span of 165m. Continuous rigid frame bridge has the shortest history but the greatest bridging capacity in girder bridges. The span length of this type of girder bridge firstly exceeded 250m in Humen Bridge of 270m China in 1997, and gradually increased to 330m in the 2nd Shib...

Technology of Concrete: Reality and Perspectives by Pshenichny GN in  Crimson publishers :  Open Journal of Civil Engineering The technological process of the production of prefabricated and monolith reinforced concrete products presupposes the use of raw materials with the required characteristics, the use of the rational composition of the concrete mix, its qualitative preparation, problem-free transportation, packing in a form, the careful compaction and ensuring of the favorable conditions for solidification. This is all true. The presented technological sequence is a well-known and generally accepted scheme of normal production. At the same time, it is difficult to call such a process directional. It cannot be directed because after all these required preparatory operations the fundamental aspect the formation of concret’s structure and characteristics are left to the concrete itself. In the process of solidification, both positive and negative phenomena are stochasticall...

 On the Education of Engineer in the 19th Century: A Note from the Studies about Leonardo Da Vinci by Elena Gianasso in  Crimson publishers :  Open Journal of Civil Engineering In the second half of the nineteenth century, scholars and professors discussed a lot about the education of civil engineer, reflecting on the relationship between research and teaching and about the importance of theoretical lectures and the practical exercises. The mini-review discusses the same relationship, still actual, based on a note signed by Uzielli [1]; (1839-1911), teacher of Mineralogy and Geology in the Regia Scuola di applicazione per gli ingegneri in Torino now Politecnico of Torino, an important tool in order to valuate the link between research and teaching. https://crimsonpublishers.com/acet/fulltext/ACET.000557.php For more open access journals in   Crimson Publishers   please click on the link   https://crimsonpublishersresearch.com/ For more articles in  Ope...