The inventors and original supplier of a popular shear-stud reinforcement for two-way flat slabs in concrete frames are up in arms over charges, based on recent research, that the American Concrete ...

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The slab-column connections are not part of the lateral system. Though the slab-column connections only take gravity loads, they still have to move with the building as it sways, Shield says. In a ...