Recent BakerRisk Co-Authored Publication: “Constitutive Modeling and Overstrength Factors for Reinforcing Steel”

The American Concrete Institute’s Structural Journal recently published a technical paper co-authored by BakerRisk Senior Structural Engineer, Thomas Mander, titled, “Constitutive Modeling and Overstrength Factors for Reinforcing Steel”. The paper will be of interest to researchers and practitioners that analyze reinforced or precast concrete structures for blast or seismic loading.  This paper presents probability density…

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Industrial Disasters and What Was Learned from Them

The Lessons Learned from Industrial Disasters The history of human innovation through industry, while remarkable, is not without its pitfalls. Occasionally, progress is marked not by the chiming bells of success but by the thunderous booms of catastrophe. Such is the nature of industrial explosions – devastating, tragic, yet imbued with powerful lessons for the…